Word: seales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...photographers to technical department and finally to a gallery or the storeroom. This latter, a spacious hall in the basement, already contains hundreds of miscellaneous items from the chair President Conant sits in at Commencement and the University's Great Salt to a bottle with Dean Swift's seal on it and the mace from the Irish parliament, which has been stored there since the World's Fair...
...France's Foreign Minister, Laval instigated the Franco-Soviet Pact of 1935 which brought French businessmen a billion francs in contracts. Sixteen months in advance he told Mussolini it would be all right to rape Ethiopia, and later set his seal on the deed in the Hoare-Laval Pact with Britain which sanctioned Ethiopia's enslavement...
...order for arc-welding electrodes, weighing 700 Ib. The order itself took a single sheet of paper. But with it came si Ib. of priority extensions, taking 597 sheets of paper (see cut). Each priority (199 in all) required typed fill-ins, two signatures (one notarized with seal). President James Finney Lincoln last week calculated that it cost him much less in money and man-hours to make the electrodes (which sold for $40.90) than to fill out the forms. When he thought of the man-hours spent by his customer in getting the priorities, he stopped trying to calculate...
Chiang for China. When General Wavell landed at Lashio in China, he did not receive Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The Generalissimo received Wavell. The meeting was a seal upon China's final admission to full estate among the Allies. It was also a belated recognition that China may yet be the only front for a direct land and air assault on Japan, that planes and tanks and heavy artillery for China may yet make the difference between victory and defeat in the Far East...
Other members of the War Cabinet: Prime Minister Churchill, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Labor Minister Ernest Bevin, Lord President of the Council Sir John Anderson (a high Tory with whom Sir Stafford Cripps may be expected to tangle), Laborite Clement Attlee, upped from Lord Privy Seal to Deputy Prime Minister & Dominions Secretary...