Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, senatorial opinion hardened on the role that McCarthy should have in this week's hearings. Chairman Mundt announced that Joe should not be allowed to sit as a committee member because, under the committee's rules, that would permit him to question witnesses, a privilege that would be denied to Army lawyers. If McCarthy refuses to withdraw, the issue would probably be taken to the Senate floor, but no one thought Joe would want to risk a rebuke by a roll-call vote of the whole Senate...
...inhabitants of Nazareth, the only all-Arab town in the state of Israel, have lived under the rule of a Jewish military governor. In that time, they have worked up a full head of resentment against Israel. When Israel decided last month to lift military rule and permit Nazareth to choose its own city council, the town's Communist leaders got to work among the city's Moslems and Christian Arabs. The Communists had the most money to spend, and outdid all others in the stridency of their attack on the Jews...
Last month the Mississippi senate killed a proposed amendment to its constitution, arguing that the change would increase the Negro vote. In contrast, Gov. James F. Byrnes of South Carolina and Gov. Christian A. Herter '15 of Massachusetts have recommended that their legislatures start constitutional amending procedures to permit lowering the age. And Adlai Stevenson, when he was running for the Illinois Governorship in 1948, also advocated the 18 year old vote...
...eighth consecutive fiscal year, booming Canada wound up with a budget surplus. The 1954-55 budget, presented to Parliament last week, reported a $10 million surplus from last year. That was the smallest since 1946, too small to permit any income-tax cuts, but still big enough to keep Canada in the select group of countries currently operating in the black...
...Central also scored when it released its annual report. Earnings in 1953 were $34 million, highest in nine years. White said he hoped that higher dividends can be paid "when earnings will . . . permit...