Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bills before Congress would weasel. It simply repeals specific mentions of the Chinese, leaving them still barred by the general ban. The two others would permit Chinese to enter and become citizens of the U.S. under the quota system. The latter bills immediately raised the specter-mainly in the Hearst press-of a horde of cheap Chinese labor swarming into the U.S. The fact: China's quota would permit the immigration of precisely 105 Chinese a year...
Japan announced that it would abide by the Geneva Convention (which it never signed) but so far has refused to permit representatives of the Swiss Government or Red Cross to visit the camp on Formosa where General Wainwright and many other Americans are interned. Unless the Japs decide to loosen up, the Army presumably will not learn until after the war how many (if any) yen and sen "Skinny" Wainwright and his comrades are getting...
...German refugees. She added: "My only other contribution to victory lies in the fact that I have been allowed to give 14 blood donations to the plasma bank, and am about to give my 15th. I am in splendid health, and only wish the Red' Cross would permit me to donate more often. It just so happens that I am blind, though I do not let it bother or hinder...
...people in the U.S., in Britain and on the Continent believe that the Allied invasion of Europe is very near. A few sober-heads have reflected that London and Washington might be waging a war of nerves, that censors who pass speculative articles might be less willing to permit predictions if the real thing were about to occur. But the expectancy is genuine. From London, heart of the Allies' main base for operations against the Continent, TIME Correspondent Edward Lockett this week cabled this report on how the world looked from that capital...
...sharp, his mind disconcertingly keen. Hours of his days are still spent dogtrotting through the Rouge and Willow Run shops, poking his long nose into obscure corners, knowing everything that is going on. At no time during the long years when Edsel sat in the presidency did his father permit him to rule alone. As Henry explained: "He knows some things better than I do and I know some things better than he does." One thing which Henry Ford knows better than anyone - while he lives, no one but Henry Ford will run the Ford empire...