Word: four-day
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...After a four-day moratorium, the doors of Cuban banks opened slightly. Only currency deposits were accepted; withdrawals were limited until March 26 to 10% of commercial and savings accounts. Except for cinemas, business withstood the bank holiday reasonably well. Cinema houses closed in towns throughout the provinces due to the fact that managers had not only a cash shortage to contend with but bombs thrown by enemies of the Machado administration...
When Citizen Roosevelt reached the Presidential suite of the Mayflower Hotel, slips of yellow paper were already accumulating: "Boise, Idaho . . . Acting Governor Hill today declared a 15-day bank holiday. . . ." "Salem, Ore. Governor Meier today proclaimed a three-day bank. . . ." "Phoenix, Ariz. Governor Mocur today declared. . . ." "Carson City, Nev. A four-day legal. . . ." "Austin, Texas. . . ." "Salt Lake City...
...world economics by means of an executive commission. To that end he proposed again to seek the co-operation of his successor who, after their White House meeting of last November, had already refused to support his methods. Between the White House and the Executive Mansion at Albany a four-day exchange of telegrams, each as coldly polite as any diplomatic note from nation to nation, charted the course of the disagreement. Final statements to the Press furnished the cracker of ill-feeling that ruptured all chance of joint action. Excerpts from the Hoover-Roosevelt correspondence...
...Western Front, to the lethal chamber of Verdun, Lenore was hardly sorry. Then she discovered she loved him still. To her astonishment her parents changed their minds about the Junkers, about Bertin too. By a lot of management, a little luck, she got her man home for a four-day leave, married him good & proper. Their honeymoon over and Bertin gone, she was quite sure she loved...
...halt until the Russians were at the gates of Warsaw. Day after day for two months the Squadron fought a 400-mi. rear-guard action, covering the evacuation of towns, hindering and harassing Budenny at every turn. Often their base train would slip out of the west of a town as the Cossacks clattered in at the east. Once they were forced to burn planes that failed at the last moment, the pilots escaping on foot. Like other Russian troops, Budenny's men had been promised a four-day loot of Warsaw, took no officers prisoners. Each Kosciuszko pilot...