Word: although
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...under a "gentlemen's agreement" whereby the British will repay in kind after the war. The British were now being told to go ahead, order all they need up to $3,000,000,000 worth, without worrying over their ability to pay or U. S. ability to deliver. Although legal means of carrying out this plan appeared still to be lacking, it was virtually a moral commitment made in advance...
...make. He wanted Laval's man, Fernand de Brinon, made emissary between Vichy and the German authorities in Paris. This Marshal Pétain agreed to. He wanted Minister of the Interior Marcel B. Peyrouton's Groupe de Protection dissolved. This the Marshal also agreed to, although the GP was his own bodyguard. But when Ambassador Abetz demanded reorganization of the Cabinet, the ousting of Peyrouton and Minister of Justice Raphael Alibert, credited with heading the Pétain brain trust, Pétain asked for time...
...something of a pro-Nazi, anti-U.S. slant to much that President Arias says and does. In the official version of his inaugural address was the statement that he believed the U. S. knew how to cooperate with Panama on a basis of good will, but that Panama, although too small to defend herself, could always make concessions to foreign countries who would defend her against demonstrations of ill will. Dr. Arias thought twice and skipped this sentence when he delivered the address...
...daft, is throttled, poisoned, knifed, or dies improbably of tuberculosis, along about 11 p.m. But in The Daughter of the Regiment, a coloratura has more chance for fun. The greatest singers of the last century-Jenny Lind, Adelina Patti, Marcella Sembrich, Luisa Tetrazzini-made the most of the chance, although the heft of the last two made the fun pretty heavy going. Lily Pons's principal worry is keeping her weight up to 105 lb., which she does by eating plenty of potatoes...
...Lake County officials set Climax's taxes at $101,259, had no trouble collecting. In 1939, they quadrupled the company's assessed valuation (from $4 million to over $16 million) and almost tripled Climax's bill, although the tax rate was lowered. When the county advertised the mine for sale to satisfy the tax claim, Climax advertised too, warned any bargain seekers that the company "wholly denied, challenged and controverted" the county's right to sell. Lest such legalistic language obscure the point, a Climax attorney explained: "We're telling anyone who might...