Word: granting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Mahatma, he simply wanted Indian independence. He might have been satisfied to get "dominion status." His minimum demands were a freely-elected Indian legislature and cabinet at New Delhi. The Viceroy had half a mind to grant the Mahatma an all-Indian cabinet, reserving, however, the portfolios of Defense and Foreign Affairs for the British Raj. The Mahatma sternly declined and the conference broke up. The Viceroy issued a cordial communiqué; the Mahatma, the next morning at dawn, invited newsmen to listen to a "sunrise soliloquy" delivered by himself...
...actual nature of the supposedly innocent "Sunday afternoon discussion group"; and Dean Sperry has stated that unless James can disprove the accusations made against him, the privilege of holding his meetings at P.B.H. will immediately be revoked. But Brooks House must still be blamed for an understandable yet careless grant of the use of its rooms to an outside organization whose purposes it had not first investigated...
...enforce it!" Abraham Lincoln, whose election was due in no small part to Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's pro-slavery decision against old Dred Scott, ordered an Army fort commander to ignore a writ of habeas corpus issued by Chief Justice Taney. U. S. Grant packed the Court, got a 4-3 unfavorable decision reversed...
...Indians used to go to this fertile valley at the foot of the Thatuna Hills to gather camas roots, they called the place Tat-Kin-Mah, which means the land of the spotted deer. First white settlers called it Paradise, and Paradise Valley it remained until 1876, when President Grant named the post office Moscow. Because there was a good deal of U. S. sympathy for Russia in the Crimean War, there were a good many Moscows, Odessas, Petersburgs established throughout the country: a Delaware seaport changed its name to Odessa in the hope of bolstering its trade (and promptly...
...among a maze of pipes in the basement of Adams House, Held is arranging his studio where he will spend the next few months sculpting, painting, and receiving interested student callers. According to a grant from the Carnegie Corporation, he will serve as "artist in residence," continuing his own work and helping students in creative...