Word: standings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This was accomplished when Mr. Chamberlain caused to be read in the House of Commons a quiet little Treasury minute. It explained that henceforth His Majesty's Government, when it needs more millions, will simply ask the House to appropriate "tokens" nominally of ?100 ($400)-each token to stand for whatever vast sum is secretly decided by the War Cabinet...
...leader with a big L has asked his people to trust him more fully than did Chamberlain-yet the Mother of Parliaments had not suddenly become a Yes-gang like the Reichstag. The difference, born out of British political genius for knowing in times of stress how to stand together without sacrificing freedom, is typical of "The Best Club in Europe." Standing together, but by no means out of the legislating business, last week the club decided to increase its weekly wartime sittings from three to five. About 100 M.P.s are engaged in special war work...
That Rumania, pushed and backed by the Allies, had decided on a resolute stand against Germany and Russia was further evidenced - and explained - by a scene last week in Sofia, capital of Rumania's southern and (until lately) cool neighbor Bulgaria. Rumania's Finance Minister Mitita Constantinescu, after a two-day visit talking politics and economics with the Bulgarians, bade them farewell by crying: "Long live Bulgaria!" and joining his hosts in throwing top hats into...
...strange land. What little emotion it arouses is one of pity for the refugees' plight rather than of indignation for what caused it. This is to write in a minor key, and flub a big theme. For there must always be those who, sick for home, stand in tears amid the alien corn. But only once in a very long while has the home they weep for been turned into a living Hell...
Ingley, Erickson, and Cobb are all consistent high scorers for the Blue, with Stevens and Seelbach not far behind. In the League ratings, the first three stand about on a par with Lutz and Buckley; Stevens and Seelbach are on the same level with Webber, Romano, and Finegan...