Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With Marshal Pétain I refuse to accept such annihilation. . . . That London should treat us like a continental Ireland, even like a colony, matters little to me, for I intend to act in such a manner that France shall recover her place as a power in Europe and in the universe...
...food was scarce, Britons did not intend to go without their pints of beer. The Daily Express calculated that Britons this year will consume enough beer to yield $588,000,000 in taxes, pay for 11⅓ days of Britain...
...President's appeal to the French there was a hint that the U.S. might go considerably further. In that he said: "We have had assurances given by the head of the French State . . . that it did not intend to agree to any collaboration with Germany which went beyond the requirements of . . . [the] armistice agreement. This was the least that could be expected of a France which demanded respect for its integrity. ..." If the U.S. no longer felt called upon to respect the integrity of France, there were steps that could be taken. Interventionist Senator Pepper emerged from the White...
...raise. The bank balked. Stuart said it would look better for the bank if paid now because otherwise she would give the raise the minute she took over. She won. Headstrong as they come, she says: "I'm doing all right with the farm and I intend to run the papers the same way. ... My dad once said that if you want to do a thing, you can, and that's my motto...
...Keynes did not intend his plan for the U.S. Last July he wrote in the New Republic that since the U.S. had enormous untapped capacity for consumer-goods production, the defense program, far from causing consumer hardships, would stimu late "a higher standard of life." Those words, he said last week, were written "a long time...