Word: return
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hobbies. Only once did he come near to breaking during the trial-during the heat of late July. Then he left the court one day and lay down in an anteroom, a suddenly old and exhausted man who was almost convinced he would never be able to return to the grueling legal marathon into which he had been thrown...
Hitler's financial Merlin, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, who was acquitted of war crimes in Niirnberg, was back at the old stand with a sure cure for Germany's ailing finances. In a new book, Schacht called for a return to the gold standard and a billion-dollar U.S. gold loan to Germany to back the mark...
...years as the watchdog of Wall Street, Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman Edmond M. Hanrahan, 44, decided that it was time to watch his family's financial security and his wife's health. Last week, "with great reluctance," he resigned from the $10,000-a-year job to return to the Manhattan law firm of Sullivan, Donovan & Heenehan as a partner. No politico, Hanrahan considered SEC a regulatory rather than a reform agency, thus got along fine with Wall Streeters. Besides, he understood Wall Street's problems and talked its language. During Hanrahan's reign as chairman...
Robert Lowry's first book, Casualty, published in 1946, was a story of stagnation in a U.S. Army camp in Italy, of sullen enlisted men, buck-passing officers, drunkenness, boredom, brief and fatal outbreaks of violence. His second, Find Me in Fire (1948), told of the return of a crippled soldier to his home town after the war, and of his inability to find a place for himself in it again. The Wolf That Fed Us, published earlier this year, was a collection of eight war stories, which had the spare narrative, the graphic power and something...
...other side of the ledger, however, Jaakko is blessed with the return of Gooff Tootell, this year's captain, and Don Trimble, each of whom is capable of competing in three field events and taking first or second in all three events almost every meet. Many other members of last year's varsity are returning. The squad will also include the best crop of Sophomore runners Jaakko has over had, many of whom were able to out-distance by far their varsity counterparts all last season...