Word: defaults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decisive in the development of our foreign policy. And Russia will estrange others besides Americans, for what will millions of citizens of the small conquered (and satellite) countries have to hope from an Allied victory, if this is how we discharge our obligations to Poland? Such a default would be worth many battalions to Hitler. We hope, therefore, that Russia's immense power will enable her to be generous...
...than just. Wheelhorse Spangler is, in fact, an earnest political mechanic who plugs away at his job. He is an accidental victim of the deep G.O.P. dilemma. Chairman Spangler is a shrewd, behind-the-scenes vote-gatherer on the relatively low political plane of precinct, county and state. By default, he has been forced to scramble on stage, an unrehearsed understudy, in a role that might try the statesmanship of a Jefferson...
When Lucian Sprague took over the broken-down M. & St. L. in 1935, his desk was strewn with $424,000 in current bills, a $254,000 payroll was due in two weeks, $46,000,000 worth of bonds had been in default since 1922-and there was only $103,000 in the bank. He had to sell some of his battered boxcars for scrap to get enough cash to repair his rotten rails. But he got every discouraged M. & St. L. employe to help him sell people on "The Peoria Gateway," amazed potential customers by helping them sell their...
...Senate's most prized prerogative is going by default...
Lynch won his first match by default, then beat John Allen 5-7, 6-2, 6-4; G. C. Fuller 6-0, 6-0; Jack Fried 6-2, 6-0; and Thomas Mann 6-1, 6-0. He received a Red Cross certificate for his victories...