Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack to evade radar . . . blew up two ships filled with ammunition, causing great damage. . . . German reconnaissance the next day had no idea of the extent of the damage. . . . There was an immediate job to be done in harbor clearance, reorganization of radar and fighter coverage before ordinary security would allow them to know the extent of their operation." (The U.S. press got its first news of Bari 15 days after the attack...
...Navy Department. Like Designer Burnham, the protesters were all Protestants. The state of Washington's Council of Churches found the design "sacrilegious ... an utter mockery of the sacredness of worship. . . . Weapons of war might as well be placed on the altar or pulpit as to allow this horrible creation ... to desecrate the sanctuary of worship." The influential Christian Century found it "rather shocking to see that symbol of gentleness and grace" holding a warship, but was thankful that "the figure of Christ does not hold the pivotal position. . . . If He were represented . . . the incongruity would be too painful...
Chuck Luckman attacked the problem at the source. He donated $25,000 to the National Association of Retail Druggists to help start the ball rolling on legislation to allow minimum-price-fixing by manufacturers. Result: the Miller-Tydings Fair Trade Act of 1937. He also spent 51 of his first 52 weeks with Pepsodent in traveling around the field persuading jobbers and retailers that Pepsodent really meant its promise of better, safer profit margins. In his first years with the company, gross profit before taxes slumped to $600,000. Last year...
...treatment. A psychopath is, by definition, a person who is usually unable to resist impulses. The defense may try to prove that Patricia Lonergan led a lively life herself, that since Lonergan is a psychopath, his impulse to kill her was irresistible. In the U.S. 24 States do not allow an irresistible impulse as a defense, 18 do. Five, including New York, allow it only if the impulse "be so strong as to ob literate the notion of right or wrong." Insanity? Another point which the defense has taken pains to verify: Lonergan's mother was in an Ontario...
Congratulations for your realistic reporting that exposes the doings of Congress in their true light. Being a Southerner, I have special reason to be enraged at men like Rankin, who continually refuse to allow the South to recover from the wounds she received during the Civil War and the Reconstruction...