Word: provisionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Little Acorns. How modestly it all started! To help support the Civil War, Lincoln's Congress in 1861 adopted 33% levy on all incomes over $800. The New York Herald applauded: "Millionaires like Mr. W. B. Astor, Commodore Vanderbilt . . . and others will henceforth contribute a fair proportion of...
Elections in Argentina's first syndicalist province are scheduled for April. Radicals and Socialists, angry at Perón's secrecy, made plans last week to boycott them. They also pointed out that the trade unionists' double-voting privilege violates the national constitution's provision that...
The proposed amendment mercifully states that when the nation is in a state of war, Congress could waive the twenty-five percent ceiling. While this temporarily saves the American people from denying themselves funds for their own defense, it also assumes that wars can be turned on and off like...
Dean Hudnut gave two reasons for dropping Design 1. It costs too much and it takes too much of the student's classroom time. To answer the second objection: This is an experimental course and as such is still flexible. Twenty hours a week on one course may be too...
One salesman at the Harvard Provision Company did admit that in the past more than a few minors have probably been getting liquor there. He explained that although they have been careful to ask identification from those who don't look 21 they can't demand it from everybody about...