Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since, once upon a time, I have had a doubtful privilege of knowing Comrade Semen Budenny personally, please permit me to take a liberty of correcting your information re said Budenny [TIME, Feb. 26]. ... He was not a Kosack, never in his life served as a Kosack, that is in an irregular cavalry, but upon serving his two years, eight months stretch in a regular cavalry, in Nijegorodsni dragoons, he re-enlisted. I don't remember for how many times. Eventually he served in Persia in 1914-17 as a sergeant-major of esquadron 4, same regiment, quartered...
...Passed a bill to make it easier for widows of ex-Presidents to use the mails free of charge. Present law requires their "written autograph signatures" on their envelopes. The new bill, which went to the Senate, would permit them to put their names on their envelopes with a rubber stamp...
...moved with his wife to Milan, Italy, soon after Hitler came into power. When Italy ordered the expulsion of all Jews who had entered the country after 1919, Architect Rothschild tried to get permission to move to some other country. After a great deal of difficulty, he got a permit for himself & family to enter Chile, in return for which he agreed o help Chile rebuild after its earthquake (TIME, Feb. 6, 1939, et seq.). Well-to-do, he sailed from Genoa with his family and belongings last September, is now in Valparaiso...
...word: "Oil." To reminders that the silver program was designed to raise the world price artificially, he could note that the price was lower than ever (34¾?) and that without the U. S. purchase plan† the natural price might be 10 to 15? per oz., which would permit the lowliest proletarian to own complete sets of sterling tableware. Finally he could stand pat on the wise remark of Michigan's Senator Prentiss Brown: "If we are going to follow an unsound policy, then let us confine it to our own citizens...
...Term III plans. But now his silence had new meanings, now at last the U. S. realized that President No. 32 will delay his announcement until the last possible second-perhaps even until convention time. Meanwhile he will lift no finger to aid any other Democratic candidate, will quietly permit the Term III fuglemen to dust off any aspirant...