Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LaFollette bill sidestepped revamping rules which permit filibustering. Even so, the chances of its passing were slim-unless Congress at long last decided to take action to help itself...
...trial for treason (though he claimed that he had fought against Germany for his king & country). Marshal Tito (who had fought more effectively against Germany, but for Stalin & Communism) spoke sentence ahead of the judges: "[His] crimes against the people of Yugoslavia are far too big and horrible [to permit discussion of] whether he is guilty or not." 500-odd U.S. airmen who had fought in Yugoslavia disagreed...
Since popular discontent forced Dictator Getulio Vargas to permit free politicking last year, long-undercover Communism had bloomed like a jungle flower. In last winter's elections, the Communists had rallied 600,000 votes behind a presidential candidate little known three weeks before. One Rio senator was a Communist: Leader Prestes, for the anniversary of whose liberation from prison Communists last month had rounded up the largest rally in Brazilian history. The majority of Brazil's topflight intellectuals-artists, writers, architects-had lined up for Communist membership cards. Communism was so strong in Brazil that there was talk...
...companies, etc. But it has already found that in the U.S., the principal market, many states have laws prohibiting the sale of such securities. The Bank hopes to have these laws changed. The Savings Bank Association of New York has already had the New York state law amended to permit savings banks to invest in World Bank securities...
...played Mahler every season for 23 years. Said he last week: "[Mahler] is gradually coming into his own in American life. In the fall I will go to London, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Zurich and I will play Mahler. I will go on with Mahler as long as God will permit...