Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good or bad, polygamy was doomed. U.S. agents came in to hunt down "cohabs." Wrote one Mormon: "The hounds of hell were laying in wate for me. How long will the Lord allow these wicked reches to gain power over...
More serious than the drastic cut in the loan made by U.S. inflation was the fact that most of the money had gone for consumers' goods, rather than for equipment that would allow Britain to produce more. In the first six months of the loan, Britain had made U.S. purchases in the following proportions: tobacco 32%, food 24%, oil 12%, raw materials 11%, films 5%, ships...
Andrei Vishinsky, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, considered the woman question. A Canadian official reported that when Vishinsky refused to allow him to take his Russian wife home to Canada (a decision later reversed by Stalin), he said: "The duty of Russian women is to produce Soviet children. . . . Most women who marry foreigners are of the wrong type. . . . Women talk too much, and thus they give the wrong impression of the Soviet Union...
Bushido, 1947. In Tsurumi, Japan, the Independent Union of the Morinaga Foodstuffs Industrial Co. decided to allow Western-style dances, provided that: 1) unmarried girls get permission from their mothers; 2) newly married men get permission from, their wives...
...serve on the commission, has no hope that the commission will come around to the radical idea of peeling off the mural. Said he: "The painting is so sacred to them that they will not dare touch it. And by trying to preserve the sacred thing, they may allow it to destroy itself...