Word: permiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as they had finished their masterpiece, a Yard cop inquired, "What do you think you are going to do, put Radcliffe on that?" The issue was finally settled when the law enforcers insisted they had to destroy the young lady because her creators did not have a permit for their project...
...others, the Senate Military Affairs Committee learned: 1) Ambassador-to-France William C. Bullitt months ago asked Douglas to show the French the new plane, was turned down because of Army objections; 2) Mr. Bullitt appealed to Franklin Roosevelt, who reversed the Army decision; 3) General Arnold signed the permit for French inspection of the plane on orders from the White House. Immediate result: preparation of a bill to give military authorities sole discretion in opening U. S. aircraft facilities to foreign purchasers...
Then Franklin Roosevelt, who had received a warning from Harry Bridges, spoke up at press conference. He had learned that France needed U. S. planes. He saw no reason why France shouldn't get the newest types, although practice has been not to permit manufacturers to sell any model of war plane to a foreign country until six months after sale to the U. S. Army has been made. The President reasoned that French orders would set U. S. factories in motion, make them readier to fill domestic orders. Having talked it over with his Cabinet, he had enabled...
...have not replied with vehement words to the demands that have been violently expressed [in Italy]. France is too great a country, too calm and too strong to permit herself to be disturbed by insults and threats. Insults! They do not hurt. Threats! France is strong enough to accept them calmly. . . . France will let no one touch her territorial integrity or her colonial empire or her free communications. . . . She will not yield a single acre or concede a single right...
Last Sunday's People's Rally was important for two reasons: 1) it marked Radio Wheelhorse John B. Kennedy's 15th year on the air; and 2) it sought public opinion on whether the Neutrality Act should be changed to permit shipments of arms to nations which have been attacked. To take the affirmative on last Sunday's question, Kennedy picked in-&-out Liberal Oswald Garrison Villard, was surprised to find Villard an out-&-out neutrality man. Keeping Villard to say the nays, he then got Nation Correspondent Louis Fischer for the affirmative...