Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Senator Minton was speaking for the second time on behalf of the bill, yielded to permit a conference report on the War Department Appropriation bill to be made to the Senate. Senator Clark quickly made the point of order that since Mr. Minton had yielded for other than a question, his second opportunity to speak was ended and he must thereafter hold his peace. Senator Guffey was in the chair and for 20 minutes a desperate parliamentary wrangle raged. Then Senator Pittman returned to the chair and ruled that Mr. Minton was within his rights, could continue...
...agreements signed, it was apparent that John L. Lewis had about lost his strike in "Little Steel." "The C.I.O. failed to meet its first major test successfully," gloated A. F. of L.'s William Green, calling for an intensified campaign to stave off restrictive labor legislation. "We cannot permit all organized labor to be penalized because of the stupid mistakes of C.I.O." Sneered the leonine C.I.O. boss: "Droolings from the pallid lips of a traitor...
Approving Nazi editors told Germans this week that the wise British had made a ''judgment of Solomon," apparently forgetting that Biblical King Solomon at the last moment did not permit the disputed babe to be partitioned...
...plays were given rural premieres. But as time went on it became clear that limited resources of every sort, plus the abbreviated rehearsal periods common to all stock companies, prevented summer theatres from being able to give an adequate tryout. Nowadays, as a rule, only the least gifted writers permit their plays to be given a summer production. Significantly, of the 75 plays tried out by summer companies last year, only ten were rated at the time as "possibilities" and none that reached Broadway clicked even softly. This year there will be hardly more than 50 country premieres...
...Andrew L. Somers, stepped into an airplane, took off for a 15-min. solo flight, then made a perfect three-point landing. The Bureau of Air Commerce, which prohibits persons under 16 from piloting airplanes, promptly started to investigate and discovered that Edward had an illegal student's permit. While Edward was packed off to his grandfather's, his father, a War pilot, admitted: "Frankly, I tried to get the Air Bureau here to waive the age limit but the Bureau refused and I told Edward. He brought me an application and said, 'Sign here...