Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replace punctilious career diplomat Jefferson Caffery, 63, as ambassador to France, Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson wanted a man who was enough of an economist to keep abreast of French financial crises, enough of a diplomat to help Western Europe toward unity. For this job Truman picked David K. E. Bruce, chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration mission in France, a lawyer and Virginia gentleman farmer. Bruce learned economics managing Mellon interests (his first wife was Andy Mellon's only daughter, Ailsa), later took a postgraduate course as Assistant Secretary of Commerce. To succeed Bruce...
...Lawrence would disagree. Mill-owners were glad to keep their labor force intact; unions had the stagger provision written into contracts. Said Arthur Brown, area director for the C.I.O.'s Textile Workers Union: "It costs the state no more to issue three consecutive compensation checks to three different men than to issue them to the same man. And if they just lay off, not only do the people who are unemployed stop buying, but so do the ones who are employed...
Nationalist leaders said: "We will fight to the bitter end . . . Nanking will hold out for six months." But they knew they could not keep these brave promises; the bitter end was at hand...
Harvard is currently sharing first-place League laurels with Dartmouth, and a third loop victory this afternoon would leave it up to the Indians to keep pace...
...roving reporter for the Satevepost (1919-1937). In 1928, another champion of doggedness got him started writing novels. Advised his Maine friend & neighbor, Booth Tarkington: "Dig up the biggest blankbook you own and get going. Put down Arundel, page 1, Chapter 1,' on the first page, and keep right on working until you fall asleep...