Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scene III: The two men face each other on deck. Franklin Roosevelt's cigaret is burning brightly at the end of his long holder. Winston Churchill's long black cigar, crooked between his fingers, has gone out. The two men shake hands gravely, then the President makes a crack...
...boldest move to date, OPM last week marched into the U.S. silk industry, became sole holder, buyer and seller of raw silk. Then it stopped all processing of raw silk (except on Army & Navy orders), put an end to all silk transfers from warehouse to mill...
This was widely and correctly interpreted as a crack at Home Minister Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, most powerful conservative leader in Japan but a notorious conference-holder. When the speech was printed in pamphlets for distribution, the Home Ministry promptly seized them...
...when an overenthusiastic congregation and architect went ahead on a $2,000,000 structure though only $400,000 had been raised. Work stopped early in the depression when $600,000 had been spent, one section completed. Since then, finances have gone from bad to worse. Last May the mortgage-holder, Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. of St. Louis, foreclosed, offered to settle its $266,316 claim for $185,000, meanwhile started charging $500 a month rent. Because "even the rent had not been paid for six months, the bank at last took the keys...
...near Cannes, sultry, Cinevamp Pola Negri, 41, who quit German films in 1938 and denied that Adolf Hitler was her friend, complained that the straitened fare of Vichy's France had cost her 18 lb. Tenor Enrico Caruso's American-born widow, Mrs. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso Ingram Holder, who lives near by, reported that since the armistice she had lost 22 lb. - Ordered to report April 16 (a month earlier than expected) for his year's military service was bespectacled, Sabbath-observing, unmarried William McChesney Martin Jr., 34, $48,000-a-year president of the New York...