Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the showdown came. Unable to bring all the Arab and Jewish delegates together during three weeks of the abortive Round-Table Conference, the British Government, rather than allow the deadlock to continue, threw its cards on the table. In an "unofficial recommendation" submitted by Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald to the Arab and Jewish delegations, the British Government proposed that they end their League of Nations mandate over Palestine and set up the Holy Land as an independent state, tied by treaty relations to Britain...
...When a President, who would not allow the use of his name, read the story in a newspaper yesterday morning...
...premise is absurd. While the Student Union undoubtedly does contain extreme Leftists among its members, it has never shown a violent or subversive character. Professing to seek "democratic ideals," it has always striven to achieve its aims in an orderly and constitutional manner. State and educational officials must allow all such open criticism and discussion to continue if our democracy is to survive. Repression of "dangerous ideas" creates a far more dangerous situation than if they are aired fully and freely in the public eye. In order to think intelligently on today's vital political, economic, and social issues, high...
Part of this huge defense expense may be met through a "profit" which the Government last week arranged to obtain by revaluing its gold. Introduced by Sir John Simon in the House of Commons was a bill to allow the Government to revalue each week, at the current market price, the gold holdings of the Bank of England. Since Britain went off the gold standard in 1931 this gold has been carried at the old parity of 855. per ounce. Gold was last week selling at 148½. per ounce in the open market. At the old figure the Bank...
Effective from April 28 to October 28, the fair tickets will be good lor two months, allow any number of stopovers, any selection of routes, so that no traveling step need be retraced. Up to 8,500 miles may be traveled for one fare. Straight coach tickets for this mileage would cost $130. Exultantly cried one-man Washington lobby, New York State's ex-Senator John A. Hastings: "The sole question remaining is, why not Postal-ize fares 365 days a year to all points...