Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer of 1802 Napoleon Bonaparte spoke to his Council of State: "If the European states intend every to renew the war, the sooner it comes the better. Every day the remembrance of their defeats grows dimmer and at the same time the prestige of our victories pales . . . . France needs glorious deeds, and hence war. She must be the first among the states or she is lost. I shall put up with peace as long as our negihbors can maintain it, but I shall regard it as an advantage if they force me to take up my arms again before they...
This was printed and nothing was done about it, but Premier Blum does intend to introduce shortly a law compelling all French newsorgans to list and publish the sources from which they derive their income. It is against this that M. Guimier and his friends have been waging what became an open vendetta when the Premier forced him out of Havas. Under the new law the Premier's own newsorgan, Le Populaire, will have to print that it is largely subsidized by the Socialist Party: L'Humanité will have to print that it is subsidized...
...feel constrained to make this statement because it has already been publicly announced that several members of our faculty intend to vote for Mr. Roosevelt, and we would not have our silence misunderstood. In doing so we speak for ourselves...
...banker, the storekeeper, the small factory owner, the industrialist, can all sit back and enjoy the company of their own ledgers. They are in the black and that is where we want them to be; that is where our policies aim that they shall be; that is where we intend them to be in the days to come...
...issue presented in the Ward-Bird complaint did indeed raise some knotty problems for U. S. merchants and manufacturers. In some cases big buyers may be driven even further into their own manufacturing operations. In others the manufacturers may have to choose the type of customer they intend to sell to, for the law seems to preclude the wide price differential necessary to retain both a wholesale and a retail trade...