Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leader of the fight for a flexible price-support system for two years, Aiken had succeeded in wooing the Senate to his side, but ran into unexpected opposition from the House, which stubbornly held out for a fixed-parity support. Aiken's plan would allow a flexible parity range from 60 to 90 percent of the base period, depending on current agricultural conditions but still securing a parity principle in the long run. Meanwhile, Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan introduced a complex farm program so confusing that the Republicans saw their chance to push a plan of their...
...felt that financial stability will allow more effective planning for the future of the Seminar as well as decreasing the expense and difficulty of annual drives to meet yearly expenses...
...only because he shows that an American can write a serious musical which is theatrically effective. The libretto--which he wrote himself--is concise with a welcome absence of trivia. The arias get somewhere and the words are skillfully treated in the music. Only once does he allow himself to be led astray by his social conscience into a long scene in which the Negroes make fun of the gossipping society at Regina's ball...
...Brattle Theatre has extended invitations to Rex Harrison, Joyce Redman, Jane Pickens, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, Cheryl Crawford, and other actors and producers currently presenting plays locally, to be their guests at a newly established Sunday evening "Star Night." The purpose is to allow them to see other plays on their night off, Brattle being the only local theater running Sundays...
Dean Griswold's announcement of Sunday last is one of momentous importance to the University's educational policy. It is only the crassest gynophobe who will carp at the decision contained therein--namely, to allow "a small number of unusually qualified girls" into the Law School next autumn. The enlightened will remember, with Dean Griswold, that "women have come a long way since they were first admitted to the American Bar Association in 1918," and further, that "many now serve with distinction on the bench...