Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backing away from this position. Therefore there could not be, and there was not, any agreement, implied or stated, to delay integration in Little Rock. For his part, Orval Faubus did not promise to remove the National Guard from Little Rock's Central High School and permit Negro children to enter. But there was a general understanding that some time this week Faubus would begin withdrawing the Guard and turning law enforcement back to Little Rock authorities...
Before a California Federation of Labor convention at Oakland (Knowland's home town), Knight boomed: "The intelligent, fair-minded men and women of the Republican Party in California are not going to abdicate and permit the Grand Old Party to become an antilabor party. No man with a reputation for belligerence either in international affairs or domestic affairs, no matter how high-principled he may be, is safe for executive office in the Federal Government today. And he is equally unsafe to be entrusted with the governorship of California...
...Port of New York Authority has banned all jets except the comparatively quiet French Caravelle (not yet in regular use, but cleared for Idlewild) from New York-area airports. The Authority refused to make an exception unless the plane passed a sound test, which the Russians refused to permit...
...Chinese Communists exist because the people permit, support and wholeheartedly fight with them," reported U.S. Foreign Service Officer John Stewart Service from China in 1944. "The common people for the first time have been given something to fight for." In this situation, said Service, the U.S. ought to alter its policy of supporting the Chinese Nationalist government lest it drive the Chinese Communists into the arms of the Kremlin. Last week, years after his favorable view of Chinese Communism was proved tragically wrong, Service, 48, was back at work in the State Department...
...flown with Canada's R.C.A.F. trudged across the country's largest glacier to salvage a crashed Stinson seaplane, it started out as a creaky air service between coastal fishing villages, sent its first DC-4 from Reykjavik to Copenhagen in 1947. It got a transatlantic permit from the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board in 1952, and chose Nick Craig, a Pan American sales executive, as board chairman, president and chief executive. "I did everything but fly the planes," says Craig. Flying the planes, as stipulated by the country's lawmakers, is a job performed entirely by Icelanders, many...