Word: regaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publicity of the steel companies, the public has been convinced that there is a coal shortage and that the strike is halting the defense effort. The union was bound to come into open conflict with the Administration, which is determined that the last isolationist labor leader shall not regain the power he has lost. With the public and the government so much opposed to its actions that there would be little squawk if President Roosevelt called out troops, the union is in a tough spot...
...Europe. He was Takenouchi, Lord of Shimitsuke, who sailed from Yokohama on the British war ship Odin in January 1862, charged with postponing for five years the opening of Japanese ports to foreign vessels. Takenouchi was successful. Last week world-traveled Saburo Kurusu may have wished that he could regain for Japan the U.S. trade contacts that Takenouchi had postponed. But that was up to Pinch Hitter Kurusu's bosses...
...death he escaped from Norway in June 1940. ∙∙Home to the U.S. came Countess Jeanne von Bernstorff, 73-year-old widow of Germany's Ambassador to the U.S. in World War I. A U.S. citizen since 1939, when she made a quick trip to America to regain her citizenship after 52 years, she answered a reporter who asked whether she spoke English: "You go to hell! I'm plain Mrs. Bernstorff. I'm no Countess any longer and you can drop the von, too. This is America...
...suddenness of a cry." In Belleville, first night under shell fire, not an officer was to be found. "At that moment . . .we lost our confidence in our leaders, the confidence that is the most elementary requirement for any army that wants to win." They never had reason to regain it-except in a few true officers. The other officers liked to say they loved France better than Hitler but Hitler better than Blum. The best officer Habe knew-a Colonel de Buissy, who had served in the Foreign Legion-was sent home. His superiors felt that he took...
...Backward Thirties when the brakes were on initiative, the emphasis on managerial conservatism. But now the loudest cry is for dynamic expansion, more output, more speed. For many a man-at-the-wheel this hairpin turn has been too much; now time is lost while they try to regain the road...