Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firing power was given to the Secretary of State seven years ago (chiefly to permit him to oust security risks) in an appropriations-bill rider. Three years ago it was extended to the Secretary of Commerce; the new bill proposed to include the Attorney General for the first time. Rooney and other Democrats argued that in 1953 the riders are unnecessary and dangerous because 1) all agency heads will have the power to fire security risks anyway, under the new Eisenhower loyalty and security program, and 2) the general power might be used to oust employees for patronage reasons. With...
...Communist charges that the National Salvation Army is a collection of bandits. Such "vilification," he says, actually included the charges that he personally had been riding around Bangkok in a fancy limousine, that he supports no fewer than twelve concubines. "I don't think my wife would permit it," says Li Mi drily...
...psychiatric examination after trying to get into Buckingham Palace to see the Queen. He wanted the Queen's permission to stay in England ("I'm asking for the fundamental right to work"). Released and told to get out of the country (his visitor's permit had expired), he went back to the palace and holed up for the night between cardboard sheets underneath a coronation grandstand. A bobby roused him at 2 a.m. and took him to jail. Brought to court this week, he was bound over to police custody while the Home Office debates his case...
After Montgomery had pushed him back to Tunisia, and the Americans were closing in on him from the west, Rommel flew to Germany to plead with Hitler to permit him to evacuate Africa, save what he could of his forces for the defense of southern Europe. His description of the interview...
...lowering tariffs gradually in many areas, on the other hand, we could permit foreign products to compete with American on nearly even terms, until our imports would equal our exports; thus, the need for U.S. economic aid would diminish. Few workers would lose their jobs, for those in more prosperous foreign plants could buy more merchandise, and even the workers who were displaced could work in the healthier export industry...