Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government set a deadline for surrender of Resistance weapons, on pain of "legal proceedings." He said: "We want liberty with order." Said Britain's Major General G. W. E. J. Erskine, head of the Allied Military Mission in Belgium: "Allied forces will assist the Government with the view of insuring respect for law and order because both are essential for the conduct of military operations...
...wiseacres immediately identified the parsonage-wrecker as round-eyed Pianist Hazel Scott, famed in café society for blending boogie-woogie with Bach. Asking the court to grant her $100 a week temporary alimony, Mrs. Powell told virtually all: "I pleaded with him to make good our marriage, in view of the fact that he was sure to be elected to Congress. He seized me solemnly by the shoulders and said it was too late...
Sunny California took a cloudy view of the future last week. The state whose citizens earned $12 billion in 1943 (and the nation's second highest per capita income: $1,452) must prepare for a sharp drop to $9.5 billion within a year after the war. So warned California's postwar planning Reconstruction and Re-employment Commission...
...step back and take an over-all view, then review the market again. This is the straight dope...
Britain and the U.S. backed Premier Said, who had refused them further concessions at the same time that he refused the Russians. From London the BBC beamed the British view to Iranians: "The Iranian Government decided to make no oil concessions until after the war. Sir Reader William Bullard, British Minister, is in close touch with the Iranian Government and he has no objection to their decision." The U.S. was reported to have told the Iranian Government: Iran's decision does not cause the U.S. Government regret or alarm because Iran is an independent country...