Word: submitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unable to disregard the voters' growing disgust with the dry law. Yet they hated to go against the earnest advice of smart old Senator Arthur Capper, 81, veteran dry leader, who wanted no mention made of prohibition. So the worried platform makers shadowboxed around the question, promised to submit it to the voters...
...Potsdam a year ago, the U.S., Britain and Russia promised to submit suggestions for revision of the Montreux Convention (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) so as to give certain privileges to the Black Sea nations, i.e., Russia and her satellites, Bulgaria and Rumania. The Western powers submitted their ideas, but Russia merely continued a press and radio war of nerves -charged that neutral Turkey had aided the Axis, hinted at territorial demands, asked such questions as: if Britain can control Gibraltar and Suez, and the U.S. Panama, why should not Russia control the Dardanelles? Moscow also pointedly failed to renew...
...comments on a recent Roper public opinion poll, in which it was found that 62 percent of the American public are willing to submit international problems to an elected world congress with mandatory powers, two faculty experts in international problems expressed disagreement in interviews yesterday...
...room which lies below the waist. These respective parts, each after its own fashion, are perpetually glowing and humming. The flendish ruler of this electrical wilderness likes nothing better than to set a visitor on a chair in the middle of it all and force him to submit to the latest product of his off-hour madness in the way of an identification quiz...
Crusading Plan. Such famine hazards were exactly what was on the mind of Sir John Boyd Orr, banyan-browed Scottish nutritionist and food crusader. To the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), of which he is director general, he was about to submit a plan which would free farming from gambling, he hoped. FAO, now only an advisory body, should enter the operating field, create a central financial system for buying any nation's surplus crops; it would eventually control production, fix prices, do away with the up-&-down cycles...