Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself defined a pension as ''an allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country," Johnson gratefully accepted a Government pension. Kingsmill pours a little cold water on the glowing friendship between Johnson and the Thrales, suggests that Johnson sponged on them, that they exhibited him, that neither party was really happy...
...have only a slight advantage over newcomers. The 65 characters have grown to more than 100 but their relationships remain comparatively simple. In many cases they are still unaware that they inhabit the same city-book. Some of them: Jerphanion, the ambitious young student at the Normal College, whose friendship with the brilliant Jallez grows more intimate, is beginning to get used to Paris. Murderer Quinette, falling more & more under the fascination of crime, tenders his services to the police as informer, worms his way into the secret councils of a radical society. Politician Gurau allows himself to be persuaded...
...passing days, aye of passing days, passing his rounds upon the watch tower of civilization, conning the ominous signs of the times, shall hear rung out the challenge: 'Watchman. what of the night?' Angels grant that, true to the lessons of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, our friendship with all nations and alliances with none, we may respond 'Thank God, all is well...
...opportunity for accomplishing just this without stopping on the tees of the military; Araki, being unable to fill his job, would announce that he was through and would be replaced by some less bellicose man. At the same time Japan would make peaceful overtures to the two countries whose friendship she would most desire in the event of a Russo-Japanese conflict, Britain and the United States. The attempt to placate England took the form of agreeing to limit her exports of cotton goods to India and making concessions in order to secure the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese treaty...
...however, is on the board of American Car & Foundry Co. of which William Woodin was head. That contact seemed to explain why Mr. Cummings was made president of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The RFC in its announcement listed among his other qualifications the fact that he "enjoys the personal friendship of President Roosevelt, Secretary Morgenthau and the Comptroller of the Currency J. F. T. O'Connor...