Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gunnery calculations before a salvo is fired. His backers insist that G.O.P. bigwigs, camped in Washington, are still underestimating the effectiveness of their candidate's missionary work within the party. He has done his persuasive best to help the campaigns of young G.O.P. candidates. In his months of travel, Stassen has talked to a score of state chairmen and other Republican local officials. When he met men who were backing either Taft or Dewey he did not argue-he simply asked, "Who is your second choice?" and went on from there doing his best to win friends and influence...
...bought space on the Cunard Line's Queen Mary for its forthcoming trip abroad, lived through a bad few hours when the C.I.O. Maritime Committee accused committee members of breaking an eleven-year-old law. The law: Government officials or employees on Government business must travel on U.S. ships, or be denied travel expenses by the Comptroller General. After hasty research, the committee found that the Comptroller has no authority over money Congress appropriates for itself. The committee kept its Queen Mary reservations...
Last week Canada was thinking quietly but hard about a loan of half a billion dollars as the best defense against U.S. dollar depletion. So long as Canadians generally believe that they can get U.S. dollars for business or travel, they are not likely to start a run on the Dominion's depleted supply. But if they should decide that the stock was dangerously low, they could start a run by stepping up their orders of U.S. goods, and getting U.S. dollars from Canadian banks to pay the bills. Ottawa's view is that with a half-billion...
...Side Issues." Abruptly, Accuser Hughes attacked Senator Brewster because of a story which the Senator had given to the press-that a T.W.A. hostess had refused to travel alone in a plane with Hughes. The aviator produced an affidavit from Hostess Harriet Applewick. She called the Senator's remarks "ridiculous...
...Roscoe Pound? He is the greatest jurist in your country. It takes many centuries to produce a man like that," Chao Lung Yang, director of the department of criminal affairs of the Chinese National Government declared last night. Chao is now in Cambridge after two months of European travel and three international legal conferences...