Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mean economic disaster. Said he: "There is no reason for a depression unless we fail ourselves to do the things we ought to do, and lack the courage and foresight to do them . . . We cannot preserve our way of life through another long, deep depression, and we must never permit it to occur...
...this was too much for Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, the Armed Services subcommittee's most dogged bird dog. "That is a very remarkable thing," Byrd exploded. "We are going into a war, and we permit somebody to say that that war is going to end on a certain date, and then the procurement department does not prepare for the war and the chiefs of staff are not consulted ... Is that the way the Department of Defense is run, where a vital question of war is to be determined by somebody else other than the chiefs of staff...
Charlie Chaplin, British subject, surrendered his U.S. re-entry permit in Geneva and flew off to London. Chaplin had made his decision. The U.S. Immigration authorities had warned him that he would be subject to a screening exam, just as any other alien, when he returned. In his London hotel room he wrote his valedictory after 40 years of U.S. residence: ". . . Since the end of the last world war, I have been the object of lies and propaganda by powerful reactionary groups who, by their influence and by the aid of America's yellow press, have created an unhealthy...
...only practical way to assure a constant supply of examinations is to put them beyond the reach of all hands, both grubby and rapacious. The glass enclosed show cases are just right. They would permit several students to examine a single exam at the same time, and would keep at least one copy safe right...
...German discussions was summed up in a communique: "a full and frank exchange ... in a spirit of friendship and cooperation [revealing] a far-reaching identity of views and objectives." Items of agreement: ¶ No relaxation of common vigilance against Russia. If Moscow really wants peace, it should permit genuine free elections in Soviet Germany, release its hundreds of thousands of German war prisoners and civilian deportees. ¶ Ultimate reunification of Germany, "by peaceful means and on a free and democratic basis...