Word: permiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having read so much ridiculing Governor Dickinson of Michigan for his utterances, I am prompted to express my feelings. First, permit me to state that I am not a crusader or reformer. I am merely a medical practitioner in a college town of 4,500. It is of no special concern to me whether it be New York or Padooka-one fact is very obvious all about us-we as a nation are becoming extremely calloused, and as Damon Runyon so aptly put it in his column a few days ago, extremely sinful...
...thousands removed, imprisoned, or shot in the purge (including 213 commanders and commissars), Russian soldiers were still sufficiently bewildered at the about-face to win an explanation from Marshal Klement Vorshilov himself. Said he: military staff talks with British and French officers were broken off because Poland refused to permit Russian troops on her soil. Pontificated the Marshal: "Just as the British and American troops in the past World War would have been unable to collaborate with the French armed forces if they had no possibility of operating in French territory, the Soviet armed forces could not participate in military...
...Sharing the brains" is the group's announced democratic ideal, and the brains are shared with boys aiming towards college when finances permit, and those who would be aided in their jobs by academic work...
...Permit me to observe that you have done a very interesting and thorough research job in getting together the very interesting sketch that you present this week on Wendell L. Willkie [TIME, July 31]. It is always worthwhile to spotlight men who have done an outstanding job in their field. Too much credit can not be given to Mr. Willkie for leading the way back to sane business-government relations...
...would grant her only an "open" rule. That would let Graham Barden of North Carolina substitute on the House floor his own wage-hour amendments, which are anathema to the New Deal. Mr. Barden's amendments would take 2,000,000 workers out of wage-hour law benefits; permit their employers to pay less than 25? an hour, work them more than 44 hours per week...