Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of appointing only so many associate professors as can be later advanced, the Administration should permit each department to name as many associate professors as its teaching needs dictate--exercising supervision to the extent of imposing a total budgetary limit. This would ensure that every department had enough "middle men" to efficiently staff its courses. It would also mean, of course, that some of the associate professors could never be advanced, but this presents no formidable problem if it is realized that associate professors here have larger salaries and greater academic prestige than full professors in most other colleges...
...Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, which in exchange for trade favors had agreed to permit Red Army, Navy and Air Force units to dominate its soil from leased bases (TIME, Oct. 9), there was a great dither of excitement. J. Stalin had demanded that ratifications of the Soviet-Estonian Treaty be exchanged without fail in six days, a trick J. Stalin learned from A. Hitler when demanding a quick handover from little States like Austria and Czecho-Slovakia. Only an hour now remained before this time limit expired and the necessary papers had not yet arrived from Moscow. To nervous...
...finest albums of jazz program music yet to be issued appeared a short time ago in the discs of Irving Berlin by Paul Whiteman. Whiteman has utilized to the highest extent his various instrumental ensembles, extremely capable vocal quartet, the Modernnaires, and singer Joan Edwards. Space won't permit discussion of each record, but the two albums, presenting some of the really great tunes of jazz ("Blue Skies," "Remember," etc.) are highly recommended...
Turkish Angle. The big diplomatic finesse which the Soviet Dictator was quietly developing in Moscow last week concerned the question of the Dardanelles. If the Turks should permit a British and French fleet to slip into the Black Sea through this narrow waterway, the Allies could then firmly bolster up Rumania and go far toward bluffing the Balkans into halting their supplies of raw materials now going regularly to Germany, notably Rumanian oil up the Danube...
...Seattle Dry Docks, Inc. for completion and outfitting of vessels. On the Gulf Coast, overworked Tampa Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., embarrassed by a $7,800,000 Maritime Commission award for four C-2 cargo ships, induced the Commission to rescind a previous award of five smaller -i ships to permit it to build the C-25. [n yards all over the U. S. ships are being launched prematurely and moved uneconomically to fitting-out basins, in order to clear the way for new keels...