Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Editor Herbert Agar, in his new book (A Time for Greatness; Little, Brown; $2.50): ''Our Government as we are now conducting it is not good enough. This is no day to permit expensive travesties of democracy. The people demand simplicity and openness and highmindedness. They are given 'politics as usual.' They ask for the bread of a true democracy, and they are given a stone which is not only inedible but moldy...
...Arizona cotton growers urgently appealed to the War Department to permit idle Japanese in relocation camps to go to work in long-staple cotton fields; 177 Japanese volunteered (out of 11,000 available) but they were mostly city men, could pick hardly half as much as experienced farm hands...
...spoke the Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson: "I have determined that Sergeant Barrow and Corporal Conn shall be returned at once to their military duties. The standards and interests of the Army do not permit the proposed contest to be carried out. There is no reflection upon the principals...
From his latest cell, where he must spend six months for practicing medicine without a license, nine months for carrying a revolver without a permit, Phillips explained his success. Said he: "The secret of my success in medicine and surgery is that I was able to build a better mousetrap...
...could apply for any job without a Selective Service permit...