Word: allowance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Manpower Commission must recapture the power over the college field that it has now delegated to the individual services; it must reorganize the draft so that there will be no exceptions. It is wasteful to allow one service to bear alone the brunt of a manpower shortage; an efficient allocation between the Army, Navy, and industry can only be achieved through a centralized agency which has the necessary scope and breadth of vision. And aside from the imperative task of planning how many and how soon, a procedure must be found to decide who should fight, who be allowed...
...liberal arts courses to be given in these programs offer the best opportunity for the infusion of some liberal education into the education for war. This can only be accomplished if, after prescribing the broad outlines of the curricula, the men in the brass hats step aside and allow the educators to determine the details of the planning and instruction of the courses. The danger is that the Army and Navy may go further than the presentation of an outline, into questions of selection and presentation of material, with an eye to using these courses in History and English strictly...
...reached when she said: ". . . Now the prevailing opinion seems to consider the defeat of the Japanese as of relative unimportance and that Hitler is our first concern. This is not borne out by actual facts, nor is it to the interests of the United Nations as a whole to allow Japan to continue...
...Generalissimo wrote her a letter which never reached her: "I will never allow myself to do anything to make my wife ashamed of me, or become unworthy of being a follower of Dr. Sun Yatsen. . . . You must never come to Shensi...
...Colonial Secretary Oliver Stanley announced last week that the Government would allow 29,000 Bulgarian, Hungarian and Rumanian Jews to enter Palestine. His report was received in England with mixed rejoicing and fury. To demands that the quota be enlarged, Stanley replied: "Stability in the Middle East [i.e., the Arabs] must be considered." > A pamphlet, Let My People Go, by rapier-minded, humanitarian Victor Gollancz, offered evidence that most of Europe's Jews will soon be dead unless something is done. Golancz pointed out that promises of postwar retribution "do not save lives," suggested release and exchange of Jews...