Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flying cavalry patrols were ranging as far east as Poland on night reconnaissance flights, Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood went to the House of Commons for approval of an "unprecedented" budget estimate for the Air Ministry, promptly got what he asked for by way of a ?100 token appropriation...
...more & more frightening costs of World War II. 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...
...self-perpetuating body of businessmen and lawyers have life and death power over Harvard? Is an autocracy, however benevolent, the best way of running a college which is a national institution in a democracy? Hiring back the forgotten ten would not remove these doubts, but it would be a token that change for the betttr is not impossible in the government of Harvard...
...token of her sovereignty, last week the Coq Rouge gave Patricia Plunkett a beauty kit. To Runner-Up Patricia Suydam (daughter of Realtor Hendrick Suydam & Mrs. Richard A. Cunningham) went a flacon of Hawaiian perfume. To Ridgeley Vermilye of Plainfield, N. J., well back in third place, went a new hat. Meanwhile, 1938 Glamor Girl Brenda Frazier, home from Nassau for Christmas, was seen as usual at Manhattan's La Conga in the morning's early hours. Her current escort is Cartoonist Curtis Arnoux Peters (Peter Arno), twice divorced...