Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outnumbered by both Catholic and Socialist Parties. Dr Colijn has ruled by forming unstable coalitions with the Catholics. Month ago the Cabinet split because the young energetic Catholics wanted to pitch into the unemployment problem with expensive public works and generous relief. This old Dr Colijn could not permit, for the budget was already unbalanced by an extensive armament program. The Cabinet resigned...
...Prince, Heir Apparent to the "throne," wore flowing blue robes, the green and gold skull cap of the Senegalese sovereigns. He also carried a ram's horn suspended from his neck, ten World War decorations and a fountain pen across his chest. He hoped Impresario Grover Whalen would permit him to spread the word of the French West African Negro at the New York World's Fair. Mr. Whalen was not impressed. New York's Harlem...
...Passed the Ways & Means Committee's tax-appeasement bill, sent it to the Senate. It would 1) abolish the undistributed profits tax, substituting a flat 18% corporate income tax on earnings over $25,000; 2) permit a two-year carryover of profits & losses and remove the $2,000 loss limit for corporations; 3) permit corporations to revalue upward their securities for two years, to ease their excess profits taxes; 4) permit retirement of bonds and notes below par without taxation. > (In Appropriations Committee) rejected President Roosevelt's and Admiral Byrd's request for a $340,000 claiming...
Most disgusted man in Harlem last week was Hubert Fauntleroy ("The Black Eagle") Julian, who once trained fliers for Abyssinia's Emperor Haile Selassie. Because he could produce neither plane nor pilot's license (it has expired), the Civil Aeronautics Authority not only refused him a permit to fly the Atlantic, but told him he would have to apply for a student's permit, like any beginner...
...have been put into application with remorseless retroactivity. In at least two clear instances men of undisputed capacity as scholars and as teachers have been given terminating appointments on the sole ground that they have already served the University more than eight years and that the budget does not permit their present advance to permanent rank...