Word: provisioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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. . . You premise your attack on the Congress for "stalling" in your Aug. 12 issue, as you have in previous issues, on the Gallup Poll, which purported to show that late in July two-thirds of the American people favored conscription. I shall not say that the Gallup Poll is meaningless...
*There is no provision in British law for resigning from the House of Commons, but a member loses his seat by elevation to the peerage or taking a post such as one of the virtually imaginary stewardships of the Chiltern Hundreds, nominal jobs with token pay and no duties.
...Government. Interpreting their Constitution broadly, leaving much to precedent, and ignoring certain parts of it (e.g., the law which gave the President, with the Senate approval, the right to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies), Frenchmen made it work for 65 years, based on it their proverb: Only the provisional is lasting...
Last March ferocious old Amadeo Peter Giannini compromised his two-year feud with the New Deal by promising to change some of the methods and practices of his 495-branched Bank of America, fourth largest U. S. bank. One provision: a $30,000,000 increase in the bank's...
2. A provision for Jower freight rates.