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Then his troubles began. The forwarding agent told him that to secure payment, he must submit six copies of his bill to a bank. Three times he went to the bank, waited in long queues, while orders piled up at his one-man workshop...
Creaks & Cobwebs. Soon after their arrival, they learned that they would have to submit elaborate applications in sextodeciplicate for permission to go ahead on any deal, await clearance through an involved hierarchy which included Boeki Kodan (the Japanese Government's Public Trade Co.), Boeki Cho (its Board of Trade), and, finally, SCAP. Then they found-as they had been warned by SCAP (TIME, June 16)-that the quantity, quality, and variety of Japanese goods were small. But the Japanese were anxious to improve them...
...Dissenters who broke away from the Russian Orthodox Church in the mid-18th Century, held that because God dictated every man's actions, civil and religious authorities were needless. After they arrived in Canada in 1899, only the most radical among them refused to submit to Canadian civil laws. Sons of Freedom now number about 1,000 among British Columbia's 15,000 Doukhobors...
...long step toward world government. Would the U.S.S.R. stay in a U.N. which could be used to oppose Russian policy as long as the U.S. had a majority in the Assembly? And was the U.S., which at San Francisco had favored the Big Power veto, really ready to submit all future security cases to the will of the majority of nations? These questions had always been implicit in the Charter; the Greek case was forcing these basic issues into the open...
...name Gordon, which I inherited, reminds me very painfully that some Scotsman in some other age compelled a grandmother of mine to submit to his desires. In Bermuda I am black and treated as Bermuda treats the black people. So I want to be called by a name that belongs to my race and requires no prefix...