Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end a petition signed by prominent islanders was on its way to Paris urging President Rene Coty not to grant Tahiti an independence it does not want. Politician Ceéran-Jeérusalemy had second thoughts as well, and put in a long-distance call to President Coty to promise that he and his entire R.D.P.T. Party were "indefectibly" attached to France after...
...Deum. In Manila, the Municipal Board refused to grant a travel allowance to Councilor Hermenegildo Gonzaga, offered instead a one-minute prayer for his safety abroad...
...Worse yet, Dennis, a Catholic, was aware that the first marriage of Pat, a Protestant, was probably valid, and so he could not marry her in his own church. Hiding from the press through it all was Dennis' dad, himself just past the newlywed stage with Cinemorsel Kathy Grant...
FIRST NEGRO STEWARDESS aboard a U.S.-flag international airline will go to work with Trans World Airlines. She is Margaret Grant, 21, who will graduate next month from Manhattan's Hunter College (where she majors in psychology) and enter T.W.A.'s hostess training school at Kansas City...
...Appomattox) Catton. For all Haskell's unusual talent, The Battle of Gettysburg was his only literary work. Just eleven months after he wrote his story of the most famous charge in U.S. history, Frank Haskell, by then a colonel, was among the 40,000 men whom Ulysses S. Grant flung headlong against the unyielding Confederate lines at Cold Harbor. He was also among the 7,000 who died...