Word: rejected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken into one of the Houses on the first drawing. Many of them are men whom we would very much like to take care of. Yet, despite our advice to wait before final rooming arrangements, they sign leases which they can't break, so they have to reject later House assignments," Miss Spidell complained...
...cause of President-reject General Juan Andreu Almazán sputtered like a discouraged short circuit last week. Loyal Almazanistas insisted that their leader would arrive in the capital by month's end, that he was ready in Mexico for a mysterious "strategy junta." But the Almazan camp in San Antonio was dismally inactive. In Mexico City a band of 500 men & women waving the green flags of Almazanismo tried to rip down a poster proclaiming General Manuel Avila Camacho President-elect of Mexico, was quickly broken up by a squad of motor cycle police. Scattered rebellions in northern...
Novelists are sometimes good guessers, sometimes bad. Last month Novelist Arthur Calder-Marshall published a book about revolution in Mexico (The Way to Santiago), with a hero who bore a resemblance to President-reject Juan Andreu Almazan. In Novelist Calder-Marshall's book everybody expected the General to start his revolution on Independence Day (Sept. 16), but nothing happened. The revolt was to begin two weeks later, with the assassination of the President, but no revolution came...
...Norman S. Binsted of Tohoku, all of whom were in the U. S. to attend next month's Episcopal triennial General Convention at Kansas City-that they too must resign. The four native Japanese bishops who will now rule the church's 30,000 communicants voted to reject all foreign financial aid. Probable shot: withdrawal of the 85 U. S. Episcopal missionaries in Japan (they could not live on a rice-Christian's income), closing of many an Episcopal mission, slimmer salaries for native clergymen and catechists...
Baron Strabolgi (who as Lieut. Commander Joseph Montague Kenworthy used to speak for Labor in the House of Commons) made the neat point that, much as Prime Minister-reject Chamberlain may hate Hitler now, his past record is so identified with appeasement that "so long as he is in the inner War Cabinet, the German propagandists will find credence for their fairy tales about Britain suing for an armistice...