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Word: permitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that I may be prejudiced since I learned at a very tender age that damnyankee is only one word and besides that, I am a descendant of the old "pirate." . . . In his behalf, please permit me to mention a few salient points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...agriculture is concerned, it must be remembered that it is either plantation agriculture or cattle raising. Not only is the climate too severe to permit Europeans to do actual labor in the field, but there is also the social system in Africa which frowns on anything but native labor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Whittlesey Doubts African Plan for Refugees | 11/25/1938 | See Source »

...problem of the lack of positions open to new settlers because the climate does not permit them to work in mines, and the fact that new settlers have to replace English executives already in charge of the mines, again preclude any hope of a large number of refugees finding work in the mines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Whittlesey Doubts African Plan for Refugees | 11/25/1938 | See Source »

Addressing the one-day emergency conference of the seaboard region of the United Palestine appeal, King caustically referred to "so-called 'Christian' nations" which permit Jewish persecution and he predicted that Poland soon may inaugurate a vigorous anti-Jewish drive

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...maybe-not prospect for the U. S. Supreme Court. At all events he is a devoted friend and follower of Franklin Roosevelt. But now one of his pet oxen was being gored. Although politicians have long assured businessmen and others that it is perfectly proper for Congressional investigations to permit biased witnesses to air scandalous charges against honest citizens, in this case Franklin Roosevelt reacted like any indignant businessman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Dies and Duty | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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