Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...councillors in 1938 made every attempt to sabotage the proposal for a new charter and to prevent it from being placed before the voters. At one time the Plan E Committee had to obtain a special order from the courts before the Council would take the necessary steps to permit the people of Cambridge to vote on the city manager form of government...
...Simpson are both widely known for research, writing, or administrative work in the field of educational finance; Dr. Fuller has had wide experience in education administration and has made special studies of law and education. Dr. Simpson is on leave from the New York Department of Education to permit his participation in the project...
...regrettable, however, that the President did not deem it necessary . . . to secure the approval of Congress or permit public discussion. . . . The people have a right to know of such important commitments prior to and not after they are made...
...influential Protestant Episcopal Church, which in law and practice has been among the strictest, made ready to reconsider its stand. The church's Commission on Marriage and Divorce unanimously proposed a canon which, if adopted at the Episcopalians' General Convention in Kansas City next month, will permit a person divorced on any grounds whatsoever to remarry and then obtain the church's blessing...
Britain's fussy education authorities, reluctant to permit the contest at all, drew the line at prizes, allowed only Awards of Merit. Said the publicity adviser of the campaign: "Five-or ten-shilling prizes would have made a tremendous difference to the 60 successful kids. But there are more corpses in the Civil Service than on any battlefield...