Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nonsense! . . . The Russians and the Americans are working together, and intend to work together. It is nothing less than reckless sabotage to suggest that the Russians are not honest on their side, and that the attempt is doomed to failure...
Puzzled citizens began to wonder if the curfew were being eased out of existence, were still a little puzzled after another Byrnes announcement: "The government does not intend to withdraw its request for a midnight curfew...
Rumania. Anthony Eden in London, the State Department in Washington confirmed the news that the U.S. and Britain were "in consultation" with Moscow over the new Government in Bucharest (TIME, March 19). But London and Washington clearly did not intend to let the Rumanian issue make or break Big Three relations. One reason was that neither Britain nor the U.S. had any practical alternative to offer. Premier Peter Groza and his Communist instrument, the National Democratic Front, had undoubtedly been raised to power by Moscow for Moscow's purposes. The ousted premier, General Nicolai Radescu, undoubtedly had good reason...
...prepare for diplomatic visits he plunged into the study of both Spanish and Russian), buckled down to his job as Secretary of Commerce. Explaining that his Department "will be interested in the aviation industry" after the war, Wallace gave up his usual early morning tennis game, announced: "I intend to learn to fly just to find out what this private airplane business will be like...
...intend to act in such a way that . . . individual merit and private initiative will remain as the basis of national activity. . . . We do not imagine our French economy of tomorrow without a 'free sector,' as large as possible. . . . [But] we declare that the State must hold the master switches...