Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even if the King and the Dukes desired peace with Nazi Germany, the British would never stand for it. But Hess could not believe that the "plutos" of a "pluto-democracy" would ally themselves with Communist Russia; that the leaders of a major world power like Great Britain would allow the public any say about national policy...
...Johnston's bold talk in Britain (TIME, Aug. 30) drew British fire even before he got home. Early last week the London press broke out in a rash of protest. Snapped the irascible Mirror: "Will Mr. Johnston please note that no government ... in this country is going to allow anyone to come along and buy up Great Britain at the back door." Said a letter to the Times: "What progress can be expected if the United States pursues a high tariff policy . . . and sets out to use her huge production power to export without taking payment in goods...
...requirements will still allow reservists to continue in school on inactive status until graduation provided they meet scholastic standards. Two weeks after graduation each reservist will be ordered to active duty reporting to the reception center nearest his home for processing. Upon completion he will be sent to the Central Signal Corps Replacement Center, Camp Crowder, Missouri, for at least three months' further training...
...Your article "Peace and the Papacy" (TIME, Aug. 16) is really quite a tragedy, a tragedy in the fact that a first-rate American publication should allow so deceptive an article to appear on its pages. Previously you have been quite frank with your reports of Roman Catholic activity but this article about Pius XII descends to a low level in TIME news-reporting...
Johnny dies-on Christmas day, of course-in time to allow Katie (from whose beauty the bloom has not been rubbed by years of scrubbing tenement hallways) to marry long-suffering Ser geant McShane, whose invalid wife also conveniently expires. Francie, as the book ends, gets to college, thanks to McShane's $10,000 a year (he has become a Tammany Assemblyman...