Word: assets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pine St., just around the corner from Wall Street. If Democrats expected him to play down his utility connections at that late date, they guessed wrong. Candidate Willkie continued to act as one who had nothing to be ashamed of, even as if his business were a campaign asset. For his first week of politicking he made his old office his headquarters. He put off the effective date of his resignation from his $75,000 C. & S. presidency until this week (July 10). He also announced he would give up directorships in eight C. & S. subsidiaries...
...Generalissimo remains the symbol of unity, idol of the people, leader of the Army-and if anything happened to him, China's morale, which is her most precious asset, would crumble. Or if any hurt should come to his fragile, energetic, moral wife, whose New Life Movement supplied China with its backbone of courage and kept it stiffened from 1937 to 1940, the result would be almost as serious...
...about to be asked to approve was technically an extension of one passed Aug. 24, giving the King wide powers to govern by decree in wartime-on advice of his Privy Council (Cabinet members and others appointed by the King). Practically, it gave the Cabinet control of every British asset in toil and treasure to fight the war. Socially and politically it withdrew from the British people the rights of person and property they had wrested from King John at Runnymede 725 years ago, and from the British working class the hard-won reforms of the past two centuries...
...owner of two nickelodeons-Snark No. 1 and No. 2. In darkened Snark No. 1 he abruptly proposed marriage. A few months later Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson started a vaudeville lecture tour, saved enough to head for the South Sea cannibal islands with a secondhand movie camera. Their main asset: nerve...
...over. Conversation would again flow unchecked. It is a beautiful equilibrium of forces, but, lacking indifference, it would almost certainly topple. Before the elbow had bent many more times, the danger point would come, the hand reach forth, and--. The lesson is clear enough: our indifference is a priceless asset. It leaves us something to work on, something to challenge us. The Associated Harvard Clubs meeting is answering the challenge without, as the rules say, "aprosexia," "anhedonia," or "serendipity." That just about ought...