Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been appointed). At its opening show (November 1929) the hand counters rang up the first 50,000 of what have since become some 3,400,000 admissions. When "Lillie" Bliss died about a year later she left the bulk of her collection to the Museum-with the canny proviso that the directors raise $750,000. They did. Last year admission fees plus other income paid about 40% of Museum expenses...
...were over by election time, Dewey led Roosevelt by a wide margin: 58%-to-42%, after eliminating the undecided. FORTUNE'S most closely comparable question shows a near-standoff: 44% for Roosevelt, 43.5% for the "best Republican." But FORTUNE'S question had the proviso "if the war, is over but the peace terms not settled." By so much is the war and its complete winding up the dominating factor of the 1944 Presidential election...
Little Steel, with its proviso that wages could rise 15% but no more over their Jan. 1, 1941 levels, was never intended as a permanent holding point. As a delaying device, it has worked well. The rush of economic history has been so swift and powerful that Little Steel, at first hailed by labor and damned by management for the raises it permitted, now is praised by management and damned by labor...
Labor has agreed to give up its rights with the specific proviso that it receive all its former privileges at the end of the war. It takes the position he said, that if the Nazis win, it can be certain it will have no right at all, and so has thrown all its weight behind the war program. British labor feels that it is one the firing line fully as much as the troops, and draft legislation treats it that...
...Article III ("They respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live") Winston Churchill has already tacked one proviso: that this shall not supersede the announced policy of Britain in various parts of the Empire...