Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...from us and [Jane and Donn shouted together] a GREAT big kiss." Twelve-year-old Elizabeth Pirie, of the British Embassy, said solemnly: "To my young fellow countrymen in Great Britain, I say we are all thinking of you and wish you the happiest Christmas that these times will bring." Said Charles Cervenka, of Czecho-Slovakia, in a tense little voice: "What kind of a Christmas will the chil dren of Czecho-Slovakia have this year? Our children at home cannot rejoice but they do not despair. They are confident that Christmas Eve will come soon again, a glorious, happy...
...Association of New York City upheld the principle of the bill but condemned its wording as "so rigid, so needlessly interfering, as to bring about a widespread crippling of the administrative process." Brookings dittoed the opinion. Everyone agreed that the measure opened up visions of an endless field day for lawyers. It passed the House twice: 1) 282-to-97, 2) 176-to-51; the Senate once...
...cards were the remainder of the French Navy and Weygand's Army in Africa, and these cards grew in power with Italy's reverses in the Mediterranean. So powerful had they become by last fortnight that Peyrouton could speak openly against Laval in a Cabinet meeting and bring about his ouster (TIME...
Grave, grey Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler forewent the "merry" in greetings to his Columbia students, wished them instead "a safe, quiet and fortunate Christmas given over to strengthening ourselves for whatever stupendous task of idealism and faith that the year 1941 will bring...
...their claims in Mexico City. Their proposal: if Avila Camacho would undo some liberal reforms of his great & good friend ex-President Cardenas, they would give chicle-growing Mexico $100,000,000 to chew on. "Steps necessary to the economic rehabilitation of Mexico" included 1) lifting immigration bars to bring in skilled labor, 2) revision of expropriation laws to guarantee foreign investments, 3) reorganization of the nationalized railroads, 4) mechanization of farms, 5) a network of five U. S. highways converging on Mexico City (to be built largely with U. S. defense funds). With the $100,000,000 (more than...