Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Carolina, old (75), adamant Governor James F. Byrnes was "shocked" but calm. The fanfare with which South Carolina changed its constitution to permit it to abandon its public schools had been interpreted as a warning to the Supreme Court. Now that the court has disregarded the warning, it remains to be seen whether South Carolina will actually carry out the threat...
...Associate Justice Robert Jackson, recovering from a heart attack, had left the hospital that morning so all nine Justices could be present when the great decision was read. * Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have public-school segregation by specific law; four permit it. The 17: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas Virginia and West Virginia. The four: Arizona, Kansas, New Mexico, Wyoming...
...matter what happens in the Central deal, Murchison is busy on a bigger transaction. Last week, in Canada, the Alberta government, by okaying a gas-export permit, in effect gave the go-ahead to Trans-Canada Pipe Lines, Ltd. to build a 2,240-mile pipeline from Eastern Alberta to Toronto and Montreal, with a planned spur to Minneapolis-St. Paul. The $3 million Trans-Canada pipeline, which will be half owned by Murchison's Canadian Delhi Oil, Ltd., will be nearly half again as long as the Big Inch. Murchison and his Canadian partners still have to raise...
IRON CURTAIN countries, turned down once as an outlet for U.S. farm surpluses, may get them under a new proposal. The Agriculture Department is pushing a plan to sell Government stocks to private exporters, permit them to sell to Communist countries for dollars, or even better, for strategic materials...
...Frankly . . . we do resent being treated as moderately wayward children, wantonly ignorant of the most elementary historical, cultural, and philosophical truths. Permit me to cite a few instances, with names deleted and subjects disguised, but in no measure overdrawn...