Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Northern Negroes had plenty of chance to observe the historical political practices of the South. Said a Negro noncom: "On D-day there was all kinds of talk about democracy. But two days later white men with guns refused to allow Negroes to vote in the Columbus (Ga.) city primary...
Trans-Jordan's petition was another sign of rising Arab nationalism. Full sovereignty would raise Emir Abdullah to the rank of King, allow Trans-Jordan to join the nebulous but much-discussed union of Arab states. Britain prefers to postpone such problems until she can concentrate on her vital Middle Eastern sphere...
...first time I have ever mentioned this matter in public. I do not intend to mention it again, unless it shall be unavoidable. . . . But I cannot sit silent in the face of less restraint across the aisle. . . . I cannot allow the suggestion to pass that there is any less devotion to the ideals of the Republic among Republicans than among Democrats...
...necessarily so; there are four from Costa Rica in the Bronx Zoo. Guatemala does not allow them to be taken out of the country...
...stiff ruling against job-skipping that previously applied only to 19 isolated "trouble spots" will thereafter bind all the U.S. But in practice, WMC promised to allow plenty of local leeway, and claimed that the program was "voluntary." But WMC hinted at its power to punish any employer who disobeyed: WPB could deny him materials; OPA could limit his gasoline rations; other federal agencies could prevent him from negotiating war contracts. WMC also could give his employes automatic "certificates of availability" so that they would be free to quit (this threat has already been invoked twice in New York...