Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Protestants who call themselves Evangelicals have been working and worshiping in Greece since the latter part of the 19th century. But in recent years there have been signs that the bishops of orthodoxy would like to put a lid on their Evangelical brethren. A permit to build a new church in Neos Mylotopos, near Thessalonica, was flatly denied; the government has requisitioned some property of an Evangelical church, and Evangelical Leader George Hadjiantoniou was arrested for "proselytizing" by distributing selections from the Scriptures...
What Cargill did was to go "short" on oats futures, i.e., sell oats for future delivery in the expectation that prices would drop. At one time, said CEA, Cargill was short as much as 31.5 million bushels (24% of the 1951 crop), though regulations permit maximum contracts of only 3,000,000 bushels. At the same time, Cargill Grain Col, Ltd., a wholly owned Canadian subsidiary, was buying oats futures on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange and contracting to sell the oats to the parent company in the U.S. Cargill, charged CEA, falsified its books by listing these contracts as cash...
...think this is a very important matter, Mister Chairman, and it seems to me that if we permit this kind of obstructionism, if we allow Communists, and Fifth Amendment Communists, Mister Chairman...
...seems to me completely unrealistic," he said, "for American senators to proclaim that never, never on any terms will we recognize Red China or permit her entrance into the United Nations." If we could get Red China to withdraw from Korea and permit free elections throughout North and South Korea, to cease intervening in Indochina, and to agree to the independence of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodi, "wouldn't we clearly be willing to recognize Red China and waive opposition to her admission into the United Nations?" he queried...
...regulations are a compromise upon the proposal to allow Claverly residents to sign off breakfasts because the Square is closer to the dorm than most of the Houses. A Claverly petition to permit such a release from breakfast board charges was vetoed before spring vacation by Lehman Hall officials because of the extra bookkeeping involved in such an arrangement. The Student Council passed the plan earlier in the term...