Word: intending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adding to the recent public announcement that no men would be called during the month of January Petersen said, "We will make known in early January whether we intend to make draft calls in February and March." The present Selective Service Act runs out at the end of March and unless the War Department feels it necessary and Congress agrees to extend the law there will be no more "Greetings" from the President, he explained...
...publisher of a little, twelve-year-old Illinois newspaper asked his friend Abe Lincoln for an autobiographical sketch.* Publisher Jesse Fell didn't intend to use it in his own Bloomington Pantograph, because everyone in those parts knew all about Abe. He wanted to forward copies of it to eastern papers, to get them interested in Lincoln for President. The Lincoln manuscript has never left the family's possession; neither has the newspaper. Last week the Pantagraph celebrated its 100th anniversary with an ad-fat, 156-page issue...
...much discretion. It was for this discretion that ex-Secretary of State Hull had fought so long & hard, believing that presidential power to adjust tariffs was a prime necessity for the horse-trading required between nations. Hull's underlying objective had been freer trade. Republican leaders evidently intend to 1) reassert Congress' prerogatives, 2) put on the brakes...
Cater said his committee is currently devising procedure for the selection of Harvard delegates and will shortly complete plans for a consolidated group from universities throughout New England. "We intend to have definite ideas," he said, "for the Constitution and program which we think a national student organization in this country should follow. This Chicago Conference, if properly supported, should be the beginning of a truly representative national student organization--which is essential if we are to participate in the international exchange of students and other international student activities...
...work," he says, "and I just make the announcements quietly and charmingly." To help him he has one of the most carrying voices in radio. So far he has played mostly Crosby, Sinatra, Como, and top tunes arranged by top bandsmen. "This," he explains, "is because I intend to be a dignified disc-jockey." Dignity is paying off. Two new sponsors have signed up since the show started. That makes eleven. And fan mail has been almost as enthusiastic as the ditty Ted had tailor-made for the start and finish of the show. Excerpts...