Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, beset on all sides, tough old Syngman Rhee proposed a deal. He said he would let the Assembly elect the next President by June 23 (as provided in the constitution) if the Assembly agreed to permit the popular election of future Presidents. On the surface, this offer looked good, but the suspicious Assembly-with eleven of its members still under Rhee's arrest-wanted to take a hard look at the fine print...
While Ingrid Bergman awaited the birth of Roberto Rossellini's twins in Rome, her lawyers petitioned a California court to permit her daughter Pia to visit her in Italy. In her affidavit, Ingrid charged that Pia's father, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, "told me it delighted him to see me cry and suffer." Spluttered the doctor: "I don't want the child exposed to Rossellini. He ran away with the mother of my child. He seems to have a habit of living with mistresses while married to someone else. It has been quoted in the United States Senate...
...Leitzes, who wanted a U.S. plant, had hoped that the Alien Property Custodian would permit the company to buy back its subsidiary (as it did after World War I). Unable to do so, they chose Canada rather than have two rival Leitz companies operating in the U.S. Another son of Dr. Leitz, Gunther, 38, will...
Regarding the Rev. W. C. Kernan and his meanderings from the Baptist Church, through the Episcopal to Roman Catholicism, permit me to make this comment: I rejoice in the freedom of my particular denomination (Methodist) in that, in obedience to Our Lord's words, it refuses "binding pronouncements" on matters wherein our own intelligence should enlighten and lead; and therefore, I have no desire to flee from this freedom into any system of theological or intellectual bondage...
...blame on transatlantic enthusiasm: enthusiasm is a good thing anywhere, and if the American can talk the hind legs off an English donkey, it is the donkey's fault. The trouble, we think, is not that Columbus went too far . . . On the contrary, it is that we permit this influence, however well-intentioned, to encroach too much upon the English preserve. It is a sad reflection on our initiative. If the solution is to abandon the leisurely mediocrity which is still our stigma, then it is high time we got down...