Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Everest George Sewell, 65, mayor of Miami; of heart disease; in Miami. Looking and dressing like a ham actor, he was a Georgia-born booster who built the first store in Miami, launched the city as a winter resort by a $3,000 publicity campaign in 1915; served four terms as mayor. Defeated in 1937, he resumed office last year after the opposition had been recalled because of graft scandal...
...Right, most Britons were as exasperated as the Sunday Pictorial, which snarled: "The British Empire was not built by the dozy fools who think we can 'muddle through.' And the muddlers will not save it for our sons. . . . Let us remember that in the last resort it is the 'under fifties' who will win this war-and not the over seventies...
...John was asked in the House of Commons whether he could guarantee that the Government would not later resort to a forced loan or capital levy. Replied he: "I cannot give any final undertaking as to how the war will be financed throughout the duration." The other ways the Government has been meeting the war's ?5,479,452 ($21,917,808)-a-day cost is through National Savings Certificates and short-term Defense Bonds, which have been selling merrily in the Kingdom to the tune of almost ?1,000,000 ($4,000,000) per day. Still under debate...
...least a few hairs to my head. Thank you for adding a month to my stay in Philadelphia. And thank you for giving Stanley Walker more salary. But how self revealing you are when, in an attempt to hold on to $1,000 of TIME'S money, you resort to the ancient device of calling names and take refuge behind a purported statement of an unnamed porter given you second hand. How far short you have fallen in the art of accurate reporting the following affidavits by two Evening Public Ledger executives will make all too plain...
...files of the CRIMSON reveal no editor who had to resort to the purchase of a trusteeship to make progress at Vassar, nor is there indication of a man with a special grudge against German geese...