Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first day all the principals went to the campus to look over Cirrotta's quarters. The next morning they huddled for several hours. In the afternoon an announcement was made in court: the state would permit Tom Doxsee to change his plea from not guilty to no contest. The judge gave him a sentence of one to two years in prison, which was suspended, and a $500 fine. Ray Cirrotta's father, in court for the hearing, collapsed when he heard the sentence. Young Tom Doxsee, as his lawyer paid the $500, said he was "disappointed" with...
...Mahoney's method of setting things straight was quite senatorial. He introduced a bill. The bill would permit manufacturers to absorb freight charges and quote delivered prices, provided they were "acting independently," i.e., without collusion. The Senate, which has been trying to draft a bill for months to end the confusion, gave a sigh of relief at these plain words. It quickly passed the bill...
Businessmen were pleased-and surprised-that Joe O'Mahoney, an old trustbuster and friend of the Federal Trade Commission, wanted to permit freight absorption, a mainstay of the basing point system. But O'Mahoney said that the bill would only put into law what FTC has been saying ever since the Supreme Court decision, namely, that any manufacturer could absorb freight charges to meet a competitor's prices at distant points so long as there was no conspiracy to fix prices. What FTC had objected to was collusive freight absorption. Much of the confusion, he thought...
...chronic reluctance to fire anyone. Not until early 1940 did the blowoff finally come. At the President's instructions, Johnson had begun shipping arms and munitions to beleaguered Britain, by arbitrarily declaring them unfit for U.S. use and thus legally available for export. Woodring refused to permit such goings-on. But Roosevelt insisted, and Woodring resigned in a letter so bitter that it has never been published in full...
...Some get out by paying a $750 fee to an underground railroad operated by Zoltan Vas as a sideline. Meanwhile, the Hungarian government, which is negotiating the terms of a trade agreement with Israel, is using the Jews for bargaining purposes. It has declared that it will permit the Jews to emigrate, but with a sharp proviso: the property each emigrant takes with him is balanced off against bananas, lemons and other future imports to Hungary from Israel...