Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...postwar government] can better be left to the awakened and repentant Japanese people to decide for themselves.' I also said 'if the Japanese people should rise in revolution to punish their warmongers and overthrow their militarists' government, we should respect their spontaneous will and allow them to choose their own form of government.' Mr. Roosevelt fully approved of my idea...
Replied Chicago's Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick: "If I would allow my name to be used ... I would have to cease acting as editor and publisher of the Tribune. ... It would be a great mistake...
Hitler presided. He flatly refused to allow Paulus to retreat. The Sixth Army, he shouted, should form a gigantic "hedgehog," capable of beating back all attacks until succored by an army pushing from the Caucasus. Air transport would supply the hedgehog with food and ammunition...
Sellers' Markets. In Kansas City, a railroad pondered a request from a septuagenarian who wrote that he had had two operations, enclosed his hospital bill as proof, declared he could not abide another blizzard, prayed that the railroad would allow him a reservation to Florida. In Birmingham, Mich., Mrs. Richard J. Coveney put an ad in the paper for a maid "to live in, $15 a day. No cooking, cleaning, serving or laundry. . . . Loan of mink coat Thursdays and Sunday. Two children but mistress will take care of them. Maid's duties to answer door and telephone...
Dark rumors began to circulate that perhaps the Administration hesitated to turn its unpleasant little prisoner over to New York because Lepke "knew too much." Was it possible that Governor Dewey might allow Lepke to "sing," unchallenged, on certain New Dealish labor leaders with whom he had once done business...