Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flutter in the routine did West Point's officers permit Cadet Parham's presence to cause. Warned Major General William Ruthven Smith, Academy superintendent, "There will be no distinction made either officially or unofficially. Mr. Parham is here by law. . . . If any cadet thinks the white race is a superior race, he can go ahead and prove...
...their political dates. They mistook the Minnesota primary for the election. They wrote letters to Minneapolis endorsing their good old friend "Pudge" Heffelfinger. The Stimson-Tilson letters failed by a wide margin to nominate Candidate Heffelfinger. But they did switch enough votes to him from Candidate Coleman to permit Candidate Nolan to capture the nomination and the election which followed last week. It was a sorry business?the Administration's man being accidentally stepped on by potent members of the Administration...
...refusal of public-land States, notably Wyoming, Montana. Utah and Colorado, to participate in any interstate conservation compact until the U. S. Government "substantially modifies" the order issued by President Hoover last March curtailing oil development leases and explorative drilling by permit on U. S. lands. These States, deprived of royalty oil revenue by the Hoover order, were in no co-operative mood at Colorado Springs...
There were hot Slavic words in the Skupshtina, Jugoslavia's Parliament in Belgrade. Again, after three years of debate, the Treaty of Nettuno which would permit "peaceful penetration" into Dalmatia by Italian colonists was being fiercely attacked by Stefan Raditch, Croatian leader of the Opposition. Leader Raditch, a gypsy, a lover of freedom, saw in the impending "penetration" the dangerous colonizing hand of Benito Mussolini, whose land is just across the Adriatic from Dalmatia and neighboring Croatia. Croat Raditch shouted in furious, wild speech. Supporting him were the Dalmatian and Croatian deputies. Against him were lined the Serbs and Slovenes...
...Extremely welcome and gratifying . . . permit us to do a service of greatest importance ... a service we have long wanted to perform," said Albert Thomas, the League's Labor Office Director...