Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Optimists had hoped Myron Taylor's hush-hush visit to the Vatican last September might persuade the Pope to say a veiled good word for the United Nations. They were disappointed. In his annual Christmas Eve message, Pius XII said: "The Church does not intend to take sides." Some were comforted, however, by the fact that he: 1) condemned states banning "ethics or religion" and "herding men as if they were a mass without a soul"; 2) upheld educational and religious freedom; 3) flayed racial persecution; 4) urged legislation to defend the worker's "rights as a person...
...like the one in 1940 that came close to giving Taft the nomination in Philadelphia? Said Taft: "My definite reply is that I am not a candidate." His reasons: he liked the Senate and wanted to run for it again; "John Bricker loyally supported my candidacy in 1940-I intend to do the same...
...leaves the impression that Americans fight hard, if not always with utmost efficiency. But after the discussion of the Meuse-Argonne, there is a pithy little passage which ought to make readers want to see a certain difference in the finally decisive battles of 1942-43: "I do not intend here," Fuller writes, "as I have done in former chapters, to conclude the story of this war with a summary of the peace treaty which sealed its end-and for two reasons...
...Stars & Stripes does not intend to change its formula, merely to offer more of it. The paper will go up to eight pages on Mondays, will not publish Sundays. The Sabbath is reserved for bluff & breezy Yank. The two papers, which are not for sale to Britain's public or soldiers, will cost the doughboys sixpence a week. Although their circulations are secret, they are unquestionably the fastest growing publications extant...
...order to meet the expenses of procuring these films, those who intend to see them must become Associate Members of the Society...