Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Litvinoff Agreement of 1933 to terminate the international activities of the Communist Party. A second proof of Russian sincerity would be the reunification of Germany as a sovereign democratic state-neither "neutralized" nor satellite. A third proof would properly be the honoring of Soviet commitments, taken at Yalta, to permit self-determination in the Balkan states and Poland, and emancipate those unhappy slave states. If Russia satisfied these three preconditions, said Dulles, then the West would ease its pressure...
...intendment which prohibit the state from enacting legislation to preserve the racial integrity of its citizens . . . so that it shall not have a mongrel breed of citizens. We find there is no requirement that the state shall not legislate to prevent the obliteration of racial pride, but must permit the corruption of blood, even though it weaken or destroy the quality of its citizenship. Both sacred and secular history teach that nations have better advanced in human progress when they cultivated their own . . . peculiar genius." Justice Buchanan concluded: "Regulation of the marriage relation is, we think, distinctly...
...them. What is more, church records show that by the age of 21, William Shakespeare was a married man with three children. His life, says Author Hoffman (who often writes as if Shakespeare had had many an off-the-record chat with him) was too "full of responsibility" to permit "the hours of solitude necessary for 'self-education...
...special licenses, etc. was created. To simplify matters, the U.S. helped sponsor a meeting of interested nations after World War II to write a single, broad General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. GATT contained thousands of tariff concessions and a rule book on trading, e.g., a signing nation would permit free transit of goods covered by the agreement, would not levy discriminatory taxes to keep imports out. It included an escape clause by which any country could protect a domestic industry seriously threatened by imports. GATT was never submitted to the U.S. Congress; it was approved by President Truman under...
Died. James Agee, 45. novelist (The Morning Watch), poet (Permit Me Voyage), screen writer (The Quiet One, The African Queen), onetime magazine writer (for FORTUNE) and cinema critic (for TIME); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...