Word: permiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news from Capitol Hill in many days" was what President Roosevelt said when he heard last week that Congress had finally polished off and approved the Social Security Bill. Only one major change had been made in the measure in conference: killed was Senator Clark's amendment to permit companies with private pension systems to retain them instead of contributing to the Government's system. A fight over the deletion was averted by a gentlemen's agreement that the subject of private pensions would be studied with a view to amending the bill later...
...their constitutional wrestling match with the New Deal. After a long motor trip through New England, Chief Justice Hughes arrived with Mrs. Hughes and their chauffeur at Buffalo, N. Y. "I'm sorry, but I cannot give time for an interview," he explained courteously to reporters. "I cannot permit a picture to be taken, either." Thereupon, majestically unaware of a skulking cameraman (see cut') and a dockside loafer who chirped, "Hello, Judge," the handsome, white-whiskered Chief Justice boarded the Great Lakes Transit Corp.'s steamer Juniata, cruised to Duluth, entrained for the West...
...Queen Marie. Marina had the best possible excuse for not going fishing with her George. All Greece believed that she was fishing with Tsaldaris. In London the Duke was covered by Court intimations that "His Royal Highness avoided meeting Premier Tsaldaris, since His Majesty's Government would not permit such negotiations...
...Senate Banking & Currency Committee agreed on a "Gold-Clause" Suit Bill rewritten to permit suits filed within six months of the bill's enactment...
...President Roosevelt made it a condition of his recognition of Russia that the Soviet Government "would not permit formation or residence on its territory of any organization or group aimed at bringing about by force any change in the political or social order of the United States." If this pledge was worth the paper on which Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff signed, it meant that the Comintern, or Moscow organization of the World's Communist Parties for "the World Revolution of the World Proletariat," would be dissolved. Fortnight ago it was still going so strong that its Seventh...