Word: soled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Constitution gives to the President and the Senate sole treaty-making powers for the nation. For 154 years the Senate has guarded this prerogative with fierce jealousy. But during World War II the Senate has been the scene of no really great debate over foreign policy. Even as Smolensk fell, and as U.S. citizens debated the postwar world with ever-increasing intensity, the Senate wriggled and stalled...
Avila Camacho ordered 250,000 acres on the tropical coasts planted in corn, the planting of more corn on lands not used for sugar. Border states put a stricter watch on bootlegged corn liquor trickling across to the whiskey-short U.S. Sole purchaser of corn will be the Government, which will distribute it on a zonal basis...
Under the terms of his grandfather's lawyer-proof, 23-part will he had already received some $93,000,000 in driblets at 25, 30, 35) 40 and 45. Now, in full and sole control, he can arrange his affairs as he wishes. He wants to be a realistic, successful newspaper publisher. Said he last week: "I'm trying to learn the game as fast as I can. I'm very serious about it. I feel that my papers are potentially profitable. Believe me, I'm in this thing to stay." This attitude apparently accounted...
...Although this criticism undoubtedly earned hear-hears from many bored BBC listeners, nothing drastic was likely to happen until after the war. Nevertheless, something did happen. It was not the appointment of hard-driving Robert Foot to be sole director and chief executive officer of BBC (he had been joint director with Sir Cecil Graves until the latter's retirement). It was the creation of the new office of Editor in Chief of BBC and the man chosen to fill...
Lieut. Tom Harmon, 1940's top gridiron star, sole survivor of a plane crash in the jungles of French Guiana last April, bagged his first Zero in a raid on Hong Kong...