Word: assign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assign civilian rabbis for High Holy Day services (Passover, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur) and part-time work at stations where no Jewish chaplain is available...
...Apostolic Delegate, Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani of Washington, can now assign appeals from marriage cases to any archdiocesan court in the U.S., instead of forwarding them to the Roman Rota for decision. Marriage cases (socalled because the Catholic Church does not recognize divorce, though it sometimes grants annulments) make up most of the Rota's docket...
...reported that Vichy had not quite dared-yet-to force the conscription of French labor for Germany, under the decree which allowed the Government to assign labor to any task "necessary to the national interest." Although the negotiations with the Nazis were so tense that Chief of Government Pierre Laval was said to have collapsed and left the conference, he had apparently reached a compromise with German Labor Commissioner Joseph Sauckel. Vichyfrance could have another try at filling the demand for 150,000 more French workers from volunteers in an exchange for war prisoners. So far, despite severe pressure, only...
...committee hastily revised its calculations, figured on the possibility of sending another billion pounds to Britain, cutting the home supply to 10 billions. This week the committee recommended countrywide rationing of meat; packers announced they were ready to cooperate. Until rationing machinery can be set up, WPB will assign quotas to packers for civilian sales...
...charged that, although the Castillo regime knows the Gestapo still operates in Argentina, it has obstructed investigation, that it has refused to assign regular detectives to the committee, threatened to dissolve Congress if the committee used special agents. He showed that President Castillo has been constantly closeted with General Juan Bautista Molina, head of the totalitarian Alliance of Nationalist Youth...