Word: permiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Assemblyman Pat Cline of Las Vegas. If Nevada's Constitution is amended, they will introduce legislation to create a state lottery monopoly, to produce a million dollars a month for division between the State and lucky ticket holders. The State's share will, its sponsors promise, permit abolition of all State taxes...
...unpleasant choice between stopping construction of six destroyers and three submarines in Government Navy yards, or of having Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins (charged with enforcement of the Walsh-Healy Act) declare an emergency and permit the steel companies to supply steel manufactured by 44-hour-a-week workers-thus offending Organized Labor...
...they were no more than lukewarm. Not yet forgotten was the promise of the Democratic platform, made last summer, that if the aims of the New Deal could not be accomplished within the Constitution an amendment would be proposed. Not yet cold were hopes that passing a bill to permit Supreme Court justices to retire on full pay (a bill that has passed the House and is up in the Senate) would achieve the President's object without criticism. Chair-man Hatton W. Sumners of the House Judiciary Committee which sponsored this bill had no enthusiasm for the President...
...Russia's greatest uprooter of bureaucracy and slasher of red tape in Soviet production, the official newsorgans said that whoever succeeded him as Commissar of Heavy Industry will "face the task of uprooting bureaucracy and restoring morale." Observed a Christian Science Monitor dispatch from Moscow: "The authorities never permit any suggestions that there might be ineradicable defects in the very system of centralized control of all Soviet industry under 'planned economy' directed by politicians. Any person making such a suggestion would automatically become a 'counter-revolutionary...
...general, the Institute's and Tsar Morgan's problems are two : how to defeat or placate temperance sentiment, how to stop bootlegging. In the grass roots States Dry sentiment has not only survived Repeal but gives signs of flourishing. In the 31 States which permit local option, Drys succeeded in promoting 3,000 referenda in 1936 and winning half of them. Last week the House of Representatives of Kansas, one of the seven States in which hard liquor is entirely prohibited, passed a bone-Dry law prohibiting beer, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union has launched...