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...pointed out that in the colonies, which were put under the strictest of Vichy control immediately after the fall of France, there was a large native population which remained loyal to the Vichy appointees, upon whom they depended for their livelihood...
...worried-and so doubtless it will remain until the war is over. But then, as in other countries throughout the world, a tragic era of depression may return. M.P. Harry Mc-Neil, adding more gloom to Tom Johnston's picture of Scottish industry, foreseeing new threats to Scottish livelihood in the bounding Dominion increase in steel production, in the "staggering" rate of U.S. shipbuilding, made clear that the home rule of Scottish nationalists is not the answer. Those who raise the "Scots Wha Hae" cry, he said, will "have to learn to sing it to the tune...
Halifax is a salt-rimed sailor's town, dependent on the sea for its livelihood, on war for boom prosperity. But Halifax also has a Calvinist moral attitude; Haligonians still squirm when historians recall that Queen Victoria's father flaunted his pretty mistress, Julie, in the face of Halifax society...
Unwarranted and unsound, the ban on corsages imposed by two House winter dance committees threatens the livelihood of the florists of Harvard Square. To the committees, "no corsages" are a part of a promotional stunt. That stunt, to us, is a matter of life and death. In place of a corsage, there is a compulsory inclusion in the ticket price of a payment toward a defense bond lottery...
...have heard only cheerful acceptance of growing restrictions that affect our daily lives. In many sections, such as ours, where there is little or no defense work our economic security is severely threatened but there have been mighty few complaints. I have heard scores of men whose livelihood is gone completely, say with a smile, "That's o.k., we can take...