Word: persistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Johnson's basic arguments against a Fourth Term was what he regards as the inevitability of continued warfare between President Roosevelt and Congress. "Should the present running row between the Executive and the Congress persist," he declared, "America will find herself in a war crisis and a postwar crisis, and her Government in a hopeless deadlock. Only a fool would close his eyes to this impending crisis. It overshadows all of the other political issues of the approaching campaign...
When Quint Guardian J. A. Valin, a judge who is now 86, recently resigned, the Province re-examined the guardianship setup. Its decision: unnecessary "intervention in [the Dionnes'] affairs should not persist." A contributory factor: public opinion has turned more & more toward Oliva Dionne ever since the late Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, also a Quint guardian, was photographed in 1939 in New York City wearing a pink mortarboard and a sign reading: "Doctor of Litters...
...Shall we have a revival of honest competition in private finance or will we persist in our present ways until the Government takes over all the banking business in America?" Unorthodox, white-haired Cyrus S. Eaton of Cleveland's Otis & Co. asked U.S. financiers this question this week in Financial World. He promptly answered it with harsh words for Manhattan's investment bankers, with whom he has long feuded over competitive bidding for rail road and utility issues. Said...
...functionaries did. A corollary explanation may be that the Russians, willing enough to enter an overall system along U.S. lines, are determined first to see that their immediate sphere in Eastern and Central Europe is arranged to their own needs and liking. Doubts will remain, questions will persist until Mr. Roosevelt and the State Department give the world a precise, understandable statement of exactly what "overall security" means...
...sure that had I realized, back in 1934 and 1935, that my creation would persist ... I would never have made my ill-fated wager. Moreover, were it not for the war I should probably have carried my secret to the grave...