Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no formal meeting of the War Cabinet. But all night long Prime Minister Churchill, Ambassador Winant and members of the Cabinet kept informal vigil at No. 10, weighing and discussing each fragment of news as it came in. Again Winston Churchill used the telephone, this time to call Franklin Roosevelt in Washington. They discussed a synchronized declaration of war on Japan...
France Forever will continue to agitate for the formal recognition by Washington of the do Gaulle government, which declared war on Japan at the same time as this country, as the legal government of France. The British recognized them over a year...
President Roosevelt warned last night: "Remember always that Germany and Italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the United States at this moment, just as much as they consider themselves at war with Britain and Russia." The Committee, however, has announced: "We shall continue to obstruct to the best of our ability every move in the direction of further involvement in European affairs." Isolationism dies hard. Let us hope that its demise will come soon enough not to obstruct seriously our present war effort...
Although even at Virginia formal religion still appeals to only a sixth of the student body, undergraduates, like many graduates, have decided that theology is again intellectually respectable. At University of Chicago there has been an undergraduate swing to Catholicism during the last two years, credited to lectures by Professor Mortimer Adler and President Robert M. Hutchins on St. Thomas Aquinas. The university has a full-time Catholic chaplain, the first in its history...
...would buy the 440,000 shares of Consolidated Aircraft Corp. common stock now held or controlled by Consolidated's president, Major Reuben Fleet (TIME, Nov. 17). The price: $10,945,000, equal to $24.88 a share and less than 50? below the stock's alltime high. After formal contract signing in Consolidated's huge San Diego plant, Vultee's President Richard W. Millar, Rube Fleet and an army of lawyers toasted the deal with Coca-Colas in paper cups. Thus Vultee took control of Consolidated through a 34% stock interest, and Rube Fleet will...