Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appropriations, Republican leaders did not propose to be rushed. Senator Styles Bridges, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said that a thorough study of U.S. supplies would be made before his committee submitted recommendations; the study, starting this week, would take at least a fortnight. "We do not intend," said Bridges,' "to deliberately shortchange our people." The Appropriations Committee of the House, which must originate all such legislation, was not yet sure when its hearings would begin...
Fortnight ago, when Rumania's Communist-eclipsed young (26) King Michael and his handsome mamma, Queen Helen, flew to London for Cousin Elizabeth's wedding, he was asked if he intended to return to Bucharest. Said he: "I have heard these reports...They are not true. I have my responsibility and I intend to meet it." He said he would fly back Nov. 23. Last week the deadline passed, and Michael stayed on in London...
...There are only two foolish peoples in the world," observed Atomic Physicist Harold C. Urey, "the U.S. and Russia. . . ." Basis for his observation: they "are making and intend to make atom bombs, and they think themselves powerful." There is no military defense against the bomb, said Urey. He gave the U.S. about a year more of monopoly...
Perhaps the Kremlin believed that the U.S. hope of an Austrian treaty would lead George Marshall on through weeks of stalemate on Germany. If so, the Russians were wrong. Clearly, Marshall did not intend to sit through another version of last winter's Moscow Conference, which accomplished nothing but the propagation of international ill will. Britain's Ernest Bevin was of like mind. He said last week: "No one can accuse me of being impatient . . . but there comes an end." If the conference does not reach agreement, "I am not going to be a party to keeping...
...member of the New York state bar. Like the others, he challenged the committee's constitutional right to ferret out a man's personal politics. "But," he said, "let me break the suspense immediately. I am not a Communist. I never have been, and don't intend to be. I am a Democrat, who in my youth was a Republican. Now if the committee is interested in the reason...