Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CRIMSON will welcome back its Alumni at an after-game puncheon this afternoon in the sanctum at 14 Plympton Street. Almost a hundred ex-editors and their families are expected to gather round the punch bowl to renew old acquaintances and to see how the CRIMSON has carried on in their absence. Tea will be served for those who have deserted the tradition...
Some nuns renew their vows every year, though most take perpetual vows...
...Mayor flatly refused to renew the contracts. He contended: 1) that the city could not legally sign a contract that permitted collective bargaining;* 2) that, although the city would continue to confer with union leaders (or anyone else), it most decidedly would not require workers to join the union and pay union dues; 3) that municipal workers had absolutely no right to strike. Liberal though the little Mayor is, to give a union the power to deprive the people of his city of essential services was more than he could stomach...
...arrogance and indiscretion made him many enemies. He got huffy with his Uncle Bertie (Edward VII of Great Britain) after his father's funeral, and in 1896 enraged all Britain by sending a telegram of sympathy to the Boer leader, Oom Paul Kruger. He refused to renew the Reinsurance Treaty with Russia, through which Bismarck had protected Germany's rear for adventures in Western Europe, and further alienated Russia by supporting Austria's annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908. He blocked French seizure of Morocco for a while, rattled his sword at France...
...terms were a comedown for ASCAP, which before the music war collected at a blanket rate of 5% of gross from the stations, and was asking 7½% from the chains to renew contracts. ASCAP General Manager John Paine reckoned that if extended to the entire industry the new terms would yield some $4,200,000 a year. ASCAP's 1940 revenue ran about $550,000 higher. The contract applies only to network programs. Local affiliates still must sign contracts with ASCAP if they want to use its music on non-network broadcasts...