Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feature of the three-day meeting was to be a communion service conducted by the Presbyterian Liberal Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. When newspapers announced the service, those who knew Bishop William Thomas Manning's legalistic views wondered whether he would allow such a service to be held in one of his Episcopal churches.* Said the bishop: "I have nothing...
Rules of procedure allow the Board to meet anywhere in Europe, though they must gather at least four times a year in the Bank headquarters at Basle. Monthly statements and an annual report must be made public...
Humor and passion do not go together. The revolutionary passion in Russia, cooling, is beginning to allow such fermentation as The Embezzlers. In an oblique manner Comrade Kataev makes fun of Soviet officialdom, hints that a hot time in the old town may still be had, and at government expense. But chiefly he reassures us that the Russian has not lost his old talent of being able to laugh at himself. The Embezzlers, neither Communist nor anti-Communist propaganda, is funny, and true to more than Russian life...
...case was the Attorney General of Ames against the Amesburg Packing Company. The first speaker of the evening, Howard, contended that the maintenance for a short time of a grocery business by a bank is sufficiently within the powers of the bank to allow a contractual recovery by a person furnishing them goods. This was delivered with an extremely clear presentation...
Lawyer George Gordon Battle: "To allow a private individual, without any judicial investigation, to put another person to death is contrary to all our ideas of jurisprudence and is highly dangerous...