Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other legislation stalled. The Stratton bill to allow admission to the U.S. of 400,000 displaced persons languished in committee, despite increasing public pressure. In Manhattan, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, reversing an earlier resolution, voted overwhelmingly to support the bill. An RKO-Pathe documentary movie short called "Passport to Nowhere" made a first-run appearance with a plea for U.S. compassion toward European refugees. But immigration sensitive Congressmen preferred to sidestep such a politically explosive issue. The Stratton bill was dying on the vine...
Most important improvement over the V-2 is the steering system. The V-2 was steered on take-off by graphite vanes in the discharge tube. By deflecting the hot stream of gases, they kept the rocket upright and on its course until it gained enough air speed to allow the rudders in the tail to take effect...
Manager Billy Meyer suggested calling for a relief pitcher, but DeRose shook his head and kept going. He threw exactly 93 pitches and did not allow a man to reach first base. It was the first perfect game in the history of the American Association, and the first in baseball's upper layers since Charley Robertson pitched a perfect game for the Chicago White...
...reconcile religious freedom with Establishment (the Church's traditional status as the national church), York suggests four reforms: 1) legislation by which the Crown could allow changes in worship without consulting Parliament; 2) Church courts from which appeal to the civil courts could be made "only when the ecclesiastical courts had failed to observe [their own] rules"; 3) a grant to the Church of the right to be consulted in the appointment of its chief officers (it is ordinarily consulted now as a courtesy and for guidance); 4) legislation allowing Church Convocations to frame and enact new canons (church...
National Spirit. In Bangkok, Siam, the director general of the government distillery indignantly scoffed at reports that his product had poisoned several tipplers, explained : "We never allow whiskey to leave our distillery until it has aged at least 28 hours...