Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monks, passed a resolution demanding that the government let them alone unless there was further bloodshed or property damage. But President Syngman Rhee paid them no mind. The married monks must go on schedule, he decreed: "They are following the Japanized principle of Buddhism." (Some Japanese sects of Buddhism allow monks to marry...
...Agreed, by 353 to 13 in the House, to allow $75 million for speeding completion of the Pan American Highway; a reversal, under Administration pressure, of last month's action striking out the funds. The road, still impassable through 25 miles on the Mexico-Guatemala border, 135 miles in Costa Rica and Panama, may now be ready in three years...
...Methodist Church is under strong and specific injunction from the Method ist General Conference to oppose racial discrimination, allow Negroes to participate in church activities as equals. But a fortnight ago the Alabama Methodist Conference adopted a resolution demanding that the General Conference pass no legislation that would interfere with Methodists' rights to maintain segregated churches, schools and assemblies...
Rear Admiral Boone rejoined by saying he would lift the ban with a "cheerful naval aye, aye" if directed by a higher authority. But no such authority exerted itself, and the ban remained. West Point informed the public that it would allow no debate on "a controversial subject on which . . . national policy has already been established." It then went ahead to argue the advisability of agricultural subsidies, which the government has approved for over a hundred years. And the Naval Academy maintained that anyone arguing for recognition of Peking was upholding "the Communist Philosophy and party line" at the same...
...doubts as to whether the McCarthy committee met the test of proper authority when Furry testified before it; he finds a possible moral justification for Furry's action in the procedural elements of the case, if not in the generalized claim of individual conscience that Barth is willing to allow...