Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blandly the venerable, white-Vandyked Dr. August Proelich, Social Democratic leader and onetime Prime Minister of Thuringia, told the startled newsmen: "I don't believe it is wise to permit the rank & file to vote on such an important issue when an organization is as young as the present Social Democratic party...
Officials did not have far to look for the reasons behind the increased emigration: 1) relaxation of the wartime Canadian law requiring a labor permit to leave the country; 2) easing of exchange restrictions on taking money out of Canada; 3) increased urban unemployment in the Dominion; 4) continuation of rigid Dominion wage controls, and higher prevailing pay scales south of the border...
Hard-drinking Haligonians have long beefed about the Government's method of selling liquor and beer. They had to pay 50? for a permit, had to wait in slow-moving queues at one of the four Government retail stores. If they were lucky, they got four quarts a month of Canadian rye or gin, or two of imported liquors. Attached to each bottle was an admonition to take it straight home...
...months ago they decided to do something about this semi-prohibition. Result: a ding-dong wet-dry battle. Headed by Mayor Allan M. Butler, the wets supported a plebiscite calling upon the Nova Scotian Government to permit establishment of taverns which would sell beer and liquor by the glass. Last week Haligonians voted for taverns...
Although the Administrative Board has round itself unable to grant the petition of students living in the Yard that they be relieved of board charges for breakfast, Dean Hanford announced yesterday that a plan has been formulated which will permit certain undergraduates to eat their morning meal in the Union...