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Word: permiting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young, radical Corliss Lamont, son of Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lamont, received last week a special permit to pass behind Lenin's tomb in Red Square, Moscow to the Red heroes' burial place at the base of the Kremlin Wall. His mission was to investigate the grave of John Reed, U. S. Communist, journalist and poet. He found it intact. The first American to visit the grave since U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union William C. Bullitt placed a wreath on it in 1932, Corliss Lamont hoped to spike rumors that Reed's body had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: John Reed's Body | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...receiver from any point within 75 feet. Philco officials are not revealing the principle of operation, letting it be known only that a radio tube and a dry cell are parts of the mechanism. The control works exclusively with the set to which it is synchronized, does not permit playing games with a neighbor's radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mystery Control | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...that of being unable to plan its working schedule and to indulge in needy visual research. Combined with shaky security and checked development is a third deterrent of unnecessary conflict over production and projection with other departments. These troubles form the reasons most favoring a budget that will permit the H.F.S. to operate with confidence and freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S HOLLYWOOD IN HOCK | 6/1/1938 | See Source »

...Genoa that he could not guarantee success for the French-Italian conversations because in "the war in Spain, we are on opposite sides of the barricades." Before agreement could be reached Italy demanded, it was reported: 1) that France close her borders to Leftist supplies* and thus probably permit a Franco victory; 2) that France discard her military alliance with the Soviet Union. Possibly for bargaining purposes, he was also said to have asked that Italians in the French African protectorate of Tunisia be given special privileges and that France pledge not to conscript native troops for her armies. Further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Breakdown | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

Said Bishop Manning: "I am wholly opposed to the raising of funds for the Church or its work by means of gambling games or gambling devices, and I trust that no parish or mission in this diocese will permit or countenance such action." The Bishop declared he was equally opposed to legalizing "the gambling spirit," even for charity. The annual convention of his diocese applauded, voted unanimously to notify the State constitutional convention of their disapproval of gambling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Croupier Churches | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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