Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found it reassuring to be told that the Cardinal was asking only for "auxiliary services," a position he had not made clear in his earlier, broadside attacks on the Barden Bill. "I again wish to reiterate," she concluded, "that I have no anti-Roman Catholic bias. I am firm in my belief that there shall be no pressure brought to bear by any church against the proper operations of the government and that there shall be recognition of the fact that all citizens may express their views freely on questions of public interest...
...father was a minor official in the Commerce Department's Coast & Geodetic Survey. His mother, descendant of Switzerland's first consul general to the U.S., was a strong-willed woman with a firm belief in the stern principles of Calvinism and a secure knowledge of what was right and what was wrong...
...Bookkeeper Joseph Binns, 45, of Long Beach, Calif., went to jail last week to serve a 30-day sentence for stealing $1,272 from the used-car firm that employed him. When he gets out, said Employer Douglas Dennard, Binns will not only get his job back but will be presented with a $100-a-month raise to help him pay back the embezzled funds...
...rest of the U.S. business colony watched the Gould case with morbid fascination. For the first two months under the new "People's Government," one firm after another-Standard Oil, the Shanghai Telephone Co., China Electric, Caltex and even the U.S. consulate-had been subjected to similar lock...
Nightmarish Question. From the north came word of new difficulties. In Tientsin, the Communists cooked up a retroactive "income tax" for the last half of 1948. The tax bore little relation to income, was based instead on a firm's "past reputation and business attitude." There was also the nightmarish question of exit visas. No one had been refused a visa to date, but as more & more businessmen gave up in disgust and prepared to go home, the Communists set up increasing complications. Samples: applicants for exit visas now had to advertise their intention of leaving China...