Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Letters from Home. Next day he called a press conference about the Communist go-slow campaign. "It is inhuman," said Sandhurst-educated General Thimayya in precise British accent. "As long as India is responsible, I cannot permit this to grow." Thimayya thought the explainers should get through a compound of 500 P.W.s a day or "forget about those who are not explained to." If the explanations stalled altogether, Thimayya implied, he would use his own troops to give the P.W.s a fair hearing...
Hockey practice will begin Monday. Four 1,500 watt lights will permit night skating and possibly night practice...
...make the record unmistakably clear, permit me to inform your readers that on that occasion I stated, under oath, that "I am not now and never have been a member of the Communist Party." I wish very much that Senator Jenner would release to the public the full transcript of the questions and answers that constituted the six minutes of my appearance in the closed hearing on March 26, 1953, but I doubt if he will ever...
...forced to cut its usual 5% stock dividend in half., because the New York Stock Exchange refused to permit it to declare cash and stock dividends larger than its earnings. The company earned $7.53 a share in the first nine months of this year, and a 5% stock dividend would have lifted the value of total dividend pay ments to $15. I.B.M. stock dropped eleven points to 230 on the exchange...
First, it does not extend immunity to state courts. This omission cuts the protection, as it would permit state attorneys to use Congressional finding in state prosecutions. In the Kefauver investigation, these attorneys were there intending to glean evidence for state courts, and forced witnesses to invoke the self-incrimination privilege. When a man can refuse to give evidence against himself under the Fifth Amendment, he is assured that his silence will protect him from both federal and state prosecution. Before the bill takes its final form, then, immunity must cover state as well as federal judicial bodies...