Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In New York customs officials admitted, under a special collectors' provision of the 1930 Tariff Act, one copy of James Joyce's famed stream-of-consciousness novel Ulysses. Banned since its Paris publication in 1922, many a bootlegged Ulysses has been sold in the U. S. for $15...
Senator Glass publicly admitted that this last provision was the only good thing he could see in deposit guarantee. He and many another expect that 1) once deposit guarantee is in effect, the public will withdraw its money from "uninsured"' banks, so 2) all banks will be forced to...
For the first time last week the Treasury offered the public new Government securities, minus the traditional "payable in gold" clause. Day after President Roosevelt's signature had legally outlawed that provision in all public and private debt contracts. Secretary Woodin announced a $500,000,000 issue of 2...
License. To bring balky industries into line the President can clamp a licensing system down on them. By canceling a license he may put one concern or a whole industry out of business until it is ready to subscribe to a fair trade code. The licensing period is one year...
The law which sanctioned the permits which opened the kegs which filled the glasses which held the beer that Jack drank in the state of Massachusetts, was rather hastily drawn up, in a pardonable fervor for the immediate start of tippling. It had several minor flaws, in the sections relating...