Word: permiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several months ago U. S. disapproval of the German-American Bund twice got the organization into the headlines characteristically. First, the peaceful village of Southbury, Conn. refused to permit establishment of a Bund camp on village property. Then a midwestern Bund convention was postponed twice because of difficulty in finding a St. Louis hall in which to hold it. Last week the Bund encountered trouble again, this time from another source. In Washington German Ambassador Dr. Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff called on Secretary Hull to announce that the German Government had again warned its 350,000 nationals residing...
...Only in four other States-all in the South-is the gross weight of trucks fixed so low; nowhere but in South Carolina is there such a narrow (90 in.) width limit. Most U. S. trucks are 96 in. wide, though Rhode Island and Connecticut permit 102-in. widths. South Carolina allows a maximum length of 35 ft. Length in other States varies from 27 ft. in Tennessee to 60 ft. in Nevada...
Last week the required reading was Ashton's "The Fascist: His Mind and His State." It was almost impossible for the greater number of students to get that at the first asking. Government 1 complied by purchasing, in all, eighteen books, just enough to permit everybody to do their week's work. This week, however, the conscientious members of the department decided to use Fritz Morstein Marx's "Government in the Third Reich." Of this they were able to obtain just four copies. When it is taken into consideration that there are approximately 500 in the course, and only...
Today, this important gentleman is 30, robust and an inch taller than the six foot three he was when his Father took office. A model young man, his industry and ambition permit him few bad habits, and his stomach trouble permits no more than an occasional highball. Instead, he gulps down three quarts of milk daily. Unlike his father, who consumes three or four packages of cigarets each 24 hours, James smokes sparingly, usually not before dinner...
...Folklore of Capitalism," by Thurman Arnold, is a brilliant and useful book. Its essential point has been stated by Justice Brandeis but the atmosphere of the court did not permit him to say it so wittily or with so many challenging paradoxes...