Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next year, the Army would have to call only one registrant out of 23. But the floor managers could see this was not enough. The Senate had seized at a straw -the Overton-Russell amendment giving the President a club over recalcitrant defense industries-which would permit Senators to argue on the stump that they were drafting wealth as well as men. The House wanted a straw...
...Korea Presbyterians have closed their schools rather than permit pupils to take part in Shrine Shinto. But elsewhere in the Japanese Empire both Catholics and Protestants, with the sanction of their home mission boards, have paid obeisance at the shrines-thereby, according to many strict believers, taking the first step in apostasy. Early Christians chose martyrdom rather than do the same thing; make a token obeisance to the deified emperor of Rome...
...22nd feature-length film and final picture for Fox, where she was the nation's No. 1 box-office attraction for four years, an Oscar winner, the corporation's biggest single asset. The opening scenes of Young People, covering her progress from waif to world wonder, permit two shots from her earlier films when her wobbly dancing warmed the hearts of millions. Now & then she rasps out such reminiscent ditties as Young People...
Last year the Council made an exception to its no-canvassing rule to permit a Red Cross drive for funds to be made at Harvard. Presumably exceptions will be made again this year for specially urgent war-relief campaigns...
...were putting the finishing touches to a brand-new Pan American Airways airport. What seagoing Pan Am was doing so far from the seacoast was best explained by a sheaf of papers on the desk of Brazil's Dictator-President Getulio Vargas, awaiting his signature. Signed, they would permit Pan Am to lop two days off its five-day, 5,777-mile run from Miami down to Rio de Janeiro...