Word: countersigns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said I must have a certificate of export from the Cultural Ministry on four framed water colors which were the only possessions I had bought in Czechoslovakia. I blew up, antagonized officers, apologized, went to Cultural Ministry, got new special appraisal of pictures, more witnesses, more bribes, another certificate, countersign-ers, paid export duty, received permit, entertained customs while packing, paid customs. It was pay, pay, pay-and then it was all over. "The only thing I learned from all this is how to distinguish between Communists and nonCommunists...
Proposed by the Student Council as a move to check widespread losses by House dances, the Committee would offer advice on bands, report on Boston orchestra agents, select dates for dances, and countersign all contracts...
Adolf Hitler has given Martin Bormann greater powers than any Party official ever had before. He can (theoretically) veto any law, must countersign all official appointments. He will often exercise these powers clad in one of his two dozen pairs of riding breeches. He cannot ride a horse...
Last week Jesse Jones asked the House of Representatives to countersign a blank check already drawn for him by the Senate...
...however, the Harvard branch of the Student Union will countersign the leaflet, the letter of the law will be satisfied and there will be no opposition from any quarter...