Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...trial shed bright light on the sorry business of selling sanctuary in South America to European refugees. Reports from Lisbon tell of Latin-American passports selling for as high as $3,000, auctioned off by the unsalaried consuls of small nations. In Berlin, Warsaw, Kaunas or Stockholm the pattern is the same. Some consuls were reported busily selling citizenship over the counter, then adding the stipulation that the refugee never enter his adopted country. The Japanese liner Ginyo Maru, which docked in Panama three weeks ago, was filled with Jewish refugees who had paid from...
...Premier had arranged for him to leave unoccupied France. Laval replied that his portfolio of Foreign Affairs gave him authority to deal with Germany, insisted that Petain make the trip. Minister of the Interior Marcel B. Peyrouton, who recently created a Groupe de Protection for the Marshal after the pattern of Hitler's Elite Guard, asked for a specific guarantee of Pétain's liberty after he arrived in occupied France...
...Although there was some talk that its long extension might injure national defense, the strike-ridden Northwest has had more than its share of strikes, and this one aroused little public outcry. But it was like no other Northwest lumber strike on record. It promised to set a new-pattern in Northwest labor relations. It threatened to isolate an extreme left-wing group of C. I. O. unions. It might even foreshadow a new period in joint A. F. of L.C. I. O. relations throughout the entire...
Last week U. S. business started down the year's home stretch into its biggest payoff period-Christmas trade. Business' seasonal pattern each year starts with a production upswing in late summer, when consumption is relatively low. Production outstrips consumption through each autumn. Then, after Thanksgiving, the consumption season begins, and business guessmen make book on whether or not autumn's inventories will be used...
Essentially, the book follows the pattern of past with two innovations. Interspersed among the advertisements are eight boxes intended to familiarize the Freshmen with their classmates' activities. Fall sports summaries, Union Committee members, and Dance Committee members are included...