Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think Hitler would permit it?" M. Pierlot exclaimed...
Sample stories: A shopkeeper fakes his accounts (upward) to the 10,000-mark income which will permit him to stay in business; he is afraid to tell even his wife...
...survey made. Offenders were asked to install condensers and other racket-eliminating gadgets. Few did. So last week the municipally-owned electric company sent electricians from door to door. Methodically they began installing condensers where necessary, charging them to the householder's monthly bill. Penalty for refusing to permit installation or to pay the bill was drastic: no electric power, no light. Results: no refusals, much less static...
Scalise, out in $40,000 bond, resigned his union presidency, wrote the executive board of the B. S. E. I. U.: "Dear brothers and sisters: . . . Under no circumstances will I permit my misfortune to affect those to whom I owe so much. . . ." Thoughtful Mr. Scalise was 24 hours late. The board had already decided to suspend...
Once the sin of accepting any interest at all, usury is a lesser crime today. Most States have laws which permit licensed, bonded small-loan companies to charge interest rates as high as 3½% a month (2½-3% in New York). In the last five years New York State Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. has been going after loan sharks who aren't satisfied even with this. In almost 200 convictions and injunctions he has secured the return of $278,000 to victims. Last week he got another: the biggest modern loan shark he had ever...