Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party lists in provincial elections. He approved party-sponsored legislation, and personally drafted much of it. No detail was too unimportant or sordid for Boss Patel. Recently he took charge of negotiations between the Congress Party Ministry in Bombay and the Western Indian Turf Association, which wanted to renew its license for the Bombay racetrack. Patel, who has never seen a horse race, knew what the traffic would bear. He upped the license fee from half a million rupees to three million...
...Good to Lose. The Pittsburgh Press last week said it would give Stokes his wish, but the New York World-Telegram's answer was to renew its contract for the column. And Editor John O'Rourke of the Washington Daily News wrote Stokes that his column was too "valuable to the News" to be dropped...
...Russia merely continued a press and radio war of nerves -charged that neutral Turkey had aided the Axis, hinted at territorial demands, asked such questions as: if Britain can control Gibraltar and Suez, and the U.S. Panama, why should not Russia control the Dardanelles? Moscow also pointedly failed to renew its 20-year-old friendship treaty with Turkey, which expired last fall...
Through the meetings and many informal gatherings, I feel sure that the thousands of returning alumni will not only renew old acquaintanceships but also be brought in closer touch with postwar Harvard. They will find that the University has never been so crowded with eager students and has never been more anxious to give to these students an education which will satisfy their ambitions and desires. James B. Conant
Dolly Driscoll, Athletic Association head, stated last night, however, that any challenge to renew the series between these two great galleon groups will have to pass through channels, meaning the Radcliffe publicity office...