Word: vowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arturo Toscanini took back his vow never to return to Italy so long as The Little King and his family had any power. Reason for changing his mind: he now believes that Italy will soon become a republic. The 78-year-old conductor agreed to conduct the opening at Milan's famed La Scala next season, telephoned Rome to start rounding up singers...
Prince Carl Johan of Sweden took a firm step forward in the footprints of his cousin, the Duke of Windsor: the 28-year-old Prince was well aware that he could never ascend the Swedish throne if he carried out his vow to wed Kerstin Wijkmark, 35, a once-divorced commoner and editor of The Weekly Review, a publication specializing in cheesecake and syrup...
...Hillman, a brash young man in high lace shoes, who spoke hopelessly fractured English, persuaded the strikers to ask for modest terms. This was a great accomplishment. He gained the friendship of Joseph Schaffner, who took a sudden vow to better conditions in all his factories. Finally, Sidney Hillman slipped a clause into the strike settlement calling for a permanent arbitration board, an almost revolutionary innovation in labor relations...
...Italian fronts were dug in and stabilized. It was a return to trench warfare, with modern modifications-a stalemate that U.S. military professionals once vowed they would never tolerate again. Crack German resistance, plus a shortage of Allied troops, had made a mock of their vow. Life behind the fronts had settled into the jumbled, fantastic pattern...
This coming shore leave promises to be a big one. Indications point for a capacity crowd at the Regimental Informal at the Statler on Saturday. Hank Cornelius promises to be on hand, even if it means forgetting his vow to solve the Wopeco Co. case...