Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Permit me to add my endorsement of a Life Subscription Plan as outlined by other subscribers in your issue...
...Hearst's prize of $25,000 for a plan to modify Prohibition. The essence of Winner Hoyt's plan was to leave the 18th Amendment alone and simply to rephrase the Volstead Act so that it would prohibit distilled alcoholic liquors-created by acts of man-and permit beverages rendered alcoholic by fermentation, which, explained the Hoyt Plan...
...Government financing legislation which the Senate has yet to approve, would permit the Treasury to sell its bills below par and pay no interest on them. The securities would be put up for competitive bidding, the buyer making his profit in the difference between the purchase price and the full redemption value...
...previous World Fairs have had vast classic façades which wearied the eye; interminable promenades which wearied the feet; monotonous planning, usually in squares, which wearied the mind. The Chicago planners are determined to permit none of these fatiguing conventions. Architecture will be imaginative rather than historical. Transportation will be ubiquitous (monorails, moving sidewalks, boats). Planning will be organic, molding the entire Fair into an architectural unit...
...Manhattan last week, Dr. Hannah M. Stone and her associates who taught a woman how to control conception (TIME. April 39), were discharged in magistrate's (police) court. The magistrates decided that New York State laws permit a doctor to give birth control instruction when the doctor acts in good faith. Instruction may be to unmarried as well as married women, so far as the New York law indicates. Unsatisfied with freedom alone, the Stone group insisted upon knowing who instigated their arrest. They suspected Roman Catholics and said so. Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen avoided a direct answer...