Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the House Judiciary Committee is expected to consider two bills: 1) one sponsored by Oklahoma's young middle-roader Mike Monroney, 2) one sponsored by Pennsylvania's youngish conservative Francis Walter. The Monroney bill is Arnold's baby, would specifically permit prosecution of labor racketeers, would let the Justice Department move in on cutthroat jurisdictional strikes, would outlaw many a nefarious-but-usual labor practice. The Walter bill, even tougher, would permit injunction suits by any person "affected, injured, or threatened with injury" by objectionable union practices...
...President. To keep the price of cotton and wheat from going to still more invitingly speculative levels, Mr. Roosevelt last week vetoed the bill to freeze Government loan stocks of those two commodities. And before this session of Congress is ended, he will probably ask legislation to permit cutting wheat and cotton acreage minima still lower...
...full of Nazi soldiers, injuring several. While Parisians waited tensely for Schaumburg to make good his threat, in Vichy Marshal Petain's Minister of the Interior Pierre Pucheu lashed out furiously at the underground Communist Party in both zones of France. Warned he: "[We] will not permit a political group that was most bellicose before the war, but defeatist throughout the war, now to wrap itself in the Tricolor and provoke incidents between the people and occupation troops on the pretext of patriotism...
...roughest, guttiest, wide-open-est sliphorns to which it has been my pleasure to listen, and his style is distinctly New Orleans, if we must stylize music. . . . It is probably apocryphal, but I have heard that George can lie flat on his back on the floor, permit a man to stand on his stomach, and then will play Tiger Rag on his trombone with his feet...
...letter, whose 57 signatures took up much more space than its text, was delivered to the Army's Adjutant General in Washington. Wrote the citizens of Monroe County, Mich.: "Please permit Private Prochaska to return home. The grain now is ripening and he is the only one in these parts who can run a threshing machine...