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Word: cancelations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Please cancel my subscription. I subscribed to your paper some time ago because I thought well of an editorial. Ever since then I have been steadily losing hope. Today's editorial against Pres. Conant's radio talk is the last straw. I can only hope that the Harvard CRIMSON no more reflects the opinion of the undergraduates as a whole than the "New Republic" does for the majority of American citizens. Alfred Codman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: May 31, 1940. | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Week 1 of Hitler's war against the West was too frantic, and passed too quickly, for its real effect on U. S. business to become visible. But the first impulse of many a U. S. businessman was to get liquid and cancel his commitments. A selling panic hit the stock and commodity markets. But Hitler's victories also started a U. S. National Defense boom towards the blueprint stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Panic in the Markets | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...that time Langdon P. Marvin '98, here to attend a meeting of the Board of Overseers, received a telegram saying "Mayor so distressed by prospect three Harvard meetings and three speeches sends word his office cancel whole thing though already pledged to Culter for Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: La Guardia Will Speak Twice At Meetings Tomorrow Night | 4/10/1940 | See Source »

...State's GOP delegation (18 votes) to the Republican convention. Landon's strategy, concurred in by Liberals Joe Martin of Massachusetts, Ken Simpson of New York and Midwest leaders, as now planned, is simple. Expecting Michigan's Vandenberg and New York's Dewey to cancel each other out, the GOP liberals count Ohio's Taft as their chief foe. Mr. Taft, who has Hooverized about 300 Southern and miscellaneous delegates, will be kept, if possible, from gaining votes for several ballots, until it is clear he cannot win. Then GOP liberals would hold their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Republicans | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...thing seemed clear: to remain visibly in the race, either Mr. Dewey or Mr. Vandenberg must beat the other by a whacking majority. A close margin should cancel them both out, leave the real contest between Ohio's Robert A. Taft and assorted dark horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Wisconsin Primaries | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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