Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnston was indicted along with Standard's slick C. Stirling Smith for juggling B. of L.E. collateral of doubtful value to window-dress Standard's shakiness. The Grand Chief Engineer had to admit on the witness stand that, as president of the predecessor bank, he had borrowed some of its funds for stockmarket speculations-at a $36,000 loss to the bank. Along with Smith, previously convicted as an embezzler, Johnston was found guilty of misapplying funds and making false entries. An Ohio appellate court tossed out the Johnston conviction as against the weight of evidence, granted...
...other day I gave her my week's candy ration, and when I went back to see her, she did not want anything to do with me. Could it possibly be that she did not like the licorice sticks, the peanut bar and the tropical chocolate? I admit I don't like them, but then I'm not starving." He signed it: "Wondering...
...Correspondent Mark Gregory did not admit that he suspected his wife, Corinne, of being unfaithful to him while he was away in the Pacific. But when he came back to San Francisco on the morning of V-J day and found that Corinne was not at home, years of suppressed doubt and jealousy burst like a boil. When at last Mark discovered Corinne at a chichi cocktail party, her touchy manner made him furious. "I missed you," she insisted. "You know that. [But] you've got to give me a chance to get used...
...already been figured into the national food picture: namely, the vast reserves of C, K, and other emergency rations currently held in depots in U.S. and overseas by Army, Navy, Coast Guard and Marines against contingency of war. Despite international squabbling, I believe even military leaders will admit war is definitely no threat for a minimum of a year or two until other nations are in atom bomb production...
...Stations, clocks which have long been set a few minutes fast, to give suburbanite season-ticket-holders (commuters) a margin of safety, were suddenly set right. Commented the approving Manchester Guardian: ". . .A time addict . . . must either go on increasing the dose by putting his watch still farther forward or admit that his existing ration no longer produces the desired effect...