Word: solemnizes
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...Solemn, forthright Senator Walter F. George of Georgia gave up his post as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee to become chairman of the all-important Finance Committee, which has the difficult job of pushing the Administration's 1941 Tax Bill through the Senate (see col. 1). To head Foreign Relations, an oldtime, all-out follower of the President's foreign policy stepped in: wavy-haired, black-hatted Senator Tom Connally of Texas. Jimmy Byrnes's Audit & Control post went to a 50% New Dealer, Scott W. Lucas of Illinois. Isolationist Walsh and anti-New Dealer Tydings...
...coronation of his father and mother in 1910, seven-year-old Prince George was bored. Reaching over to tickle his solemn-faced sister Princess Mary, now the Princess Royal, he slipped off his seat and plopped to the floor. When Mary stooped over to pick him up, her coronet fell off. The Prince of Wales (now Governor of the Bahamas) unsnarled the confusion by fielding the coronet, restoring it to his sister's head and threatening to punch George's nose if he did not behave...
...days later, Warden Clinton Duffy was told that a committee of convicts requested an interview. The committee filed into his office, stated their request: that one of them should die in the Duchess' place. They handed the warden a solemn petition...
...Notes were sent by Japan to Germany and Russia, both of them brothers in friendship by solemn covenant and pact...
...Neutrality Pact with Russia. The Japanese are honorable people, not treaty-breakers like Hitler, and a Japanese would never think of violating a solemn covenant unless its violation became the more honorable course than the maintenance of its sanctity. In a mood of high morality the newspaper Yomiuri suggested to the Government that the national interest is the highest ethics. "There is no other way," concluded Yomiuri, "except to march forward in a fixed line of national policy and long-standing tradition...