Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billion, or for that matter, a $5 billion increase in our imports would not displace any workers in the total American labor force. If payment for these imports reduced the need for foreign aid by this amount, an offsetting reduction in taxes would permit the American consumer to buy an additional $2 billion worth of goods. If foreign-aid payments were not affected, such imports would permit foreign buyers to buy an additional $2 billion worth of our goods...
...hitching a makeshift EPT rider to the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Extension bill, Dan simply bottled up the reciprocal trade bill in his committee. The committee, said Dan, was "too busy" to deal with the bill-until the White House and congressional leaders gave their word that they would permit no such trick amendment. Dan won. "At my request," he announced last week, "I have now received airtight assurances from the White House, from the Senate and House leadership, that they will oppose any attempt ... to amend trade agreements legislation with an extension of the discriminatory and unfair excess profits...
...answer to Taft the President relaxed press conference rules to permit direct quotation. For the rest of the conference, he reverted to the time-honored paraphrase. Other questions and answers, in essence, made these points...
Then the minority leader got to the point he had been working up to: "The American people elected President Eisenhower to preserve the strength, the prosperity, and the freedom of America. That platform will be realized only if they give him a Democratic Congress in 1954 . . . We shall not permit the Republican Old Guard to use the President's prestige as a shield behind which they will tear down the liberty and prosperity our people have built. Nor do we believe that the President wants his prestige used for such a purpose...
...Winchell's pet project, the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund (TIME, Jan. 7, 1952 et seq.). Recently Lyons lighted a firecracker under Winchell by writing a letter to New York City's Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan. The letter suggested that Monaghan revoke Winchell's pistol-toting permit, unless Winchell could pass a "psychiatric" test...