Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Monty was to address the English-Speaking Union in Manhattan, publicly and in more general terms. But the nub of his message was the same: that the West could not allow old rancors to divide it against the greater threat of the East. "Civilization is in danger," he said, "because of a clash between two conflicting moral codes: between Communism and Democracy . . . As a Christian soldier I declare myself an enemy of Communism and all that it stands for. Unless this danger can be held, great trouble lies ahead...
...mile diocese soon learned that they would have to toe a straight ecclesiastical line. Firmly championing the sanctity of marriage as defined in the canons of the Episcopal Church, he kept a tight rein on ministers who might be tempted to stretch the rules a little in order to allow the divorced to remarry. He made newspaper headlines in 1921 by preventing the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant from marrying a divorcee, and again in 1926 by attacking the Roman Catholic Church for annulling the marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough. He hailed the abdication of Edward VIII...
...officers who did the fighting. Tapped for the job by Navy Secretary Knox in 1943 was Captain Walter Karig, U.S.N.R., in civilian life a newsman and prolific writer of children's books. The other was planned as a formal history based on all available information-"unofficial" to allow for criticism but backed to the hilt by all the resources o.f Navy documents and officialdom. The man who proposed the idea to F.D.R. early in 1942 got the job. He was Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard professor of history and Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer of Christopher Columbus (Admiral of the Ocean...
...College to take action about the gun, if it wants to." Connelly stated. State rules allow persons to keep weapons in their own homes, but College regulations forbid students from keeping firearms in rooms without permission...
Second, until a change is voted, some arrangements should be made by House Committees for the entertaining of women guests, at least on weekends, after individual rooms are official closed. Winthrop and Lowell, for example, allow use of one Common Room for such purposes. Admittedly Common Rooms are lacking in "atmosphere" and, in many eases, proper planning within the House would help. Proper planning within the House could avoid conflicts with groups using the rooms for meetings...