Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard luck stories as not being able to take piano lessons from a female teacher in his own abode or not being able to receive furniture from a spinster aunt who had driven many miles to bequeath it. A large number of people expressed their willingness to abide by stringent parietal rules if only the various house common rooms be open to females without registration...
...large question mark is the problem of the Supreme Court. Even if a less stringent system than the N.R.A. can swing the liberal group on the bench, there is little hope that the "due process brigade" will follow suit. It would be an unforgiveable mistake on the part of President Roosevelt to meet this in any but an orderly way. Packing the court would establish a precedent that would permanently destroy the usefulness of the tribunal. Two alternatives are left; wait for the more conservative members to die, or amend the Constitution. If the President is willing to wait several...
Despite such evidence to the contrary, highway authorities continue to regard speed as a prime cause of highway accidents which last year took 36,400 lives, this year are likely to take more.* Put into effect in New York State as the safe drivers departed was a set of stringent new penalties for speeding or reckless driving. Sample: $100 fine for first offense, $250 for second. This promptly scared the Automobile Manufacturers Association into a formal resolution asking members to stop advertising the top speeds of their automobiles...
...contract for U. S. performances to a U. S. Consul. England is not so liberal toward foreign artists, permits them to enter for professional purposes only when there is proof that the applicant has qualifications which place him beyond competition with native artists. The French ruling is almost as stringent. Germany, Poland, Russia refuse to let alien artists take their earnings from the country. Italy bans all foreign performers save those who establish residences...
...personalities. Economy will, in short, probably have more to do with the election of the next President than any other single issue. Whatever the result may be, the unloading of such unfinished and dead cargo as the Florida ship-canal and the Passamaquoddy project signalizes the beginning of a stringent economy on the part of the Administration. The age-old adage, never too late to learn, seems to have been invoked in the nick of time by that distinguished political figure, "Honest Jim" Farley...