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...himself, saying he had forgotten some papers, and nipped up two flights of stairs to his office. Churchill watched the septuagenarian Generalissimo bound upstairs and then, according to the story told last week in Paris, turned to Marshal Pétain (83) and demanded: "Do you think we should entrust the fate of our two countries to so young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Battle of Desperation | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...soon ran into an unpredictable snag: he began losing his British accent. Last year Producer Edward Small rescued him from the B's and supporting parts to skate in The Duke of West Point after the death of British Skater Jack Dunn, liked him well enough to entrust him with his crucial part in The Man in the Iron Mask...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...space below describe the kind of a lady you desire for a life companion and we will attend to the matter at once." Just like that! But who was this Jane Fuller, this dictator of the laws of nature? Should Vag, the cream of something or other, entrust his marital happiness to some unknown goddess in Milwaukee? No! And as he strode about the room in blustering defiance, a Great Idea came to him. The Government, that great paternal being, that impartial regulator of everything it can get its hands on, the Government should decide whom he should marry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/15/1939 | See Source »

...University Corporation voted that he is "to assist the President in exercising a general superintendence over all the concerns of the University and to act for the President in such matters as from time to time the President may entrust to his care...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHASE MADE NEW UNIVRSITY DEAN | 1/12/1939 | See Source »

...went on to state that "Parents and schools must place more faith in college officials and entrust them with confidential information" in order that "the work of personnel officers may be better done and that many cases of failure in college may be caught...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bowditch Shows Need for Modern Teaching System | 1/5/1939 | See Source »

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