Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Treasury officials feverishly pursued their campaign of statements, speeches and planted newspaper articles designed to convince the people and Congress that the war is not almost over, that inflation danger is real. Food Boss Marvin Jones, too considerate to call in his publicity staff but too worried to wait, went to his empty office on Sunday, typed out an appeal for quick Congressional action on subsidies so that farmers can make their planting plans, personally distributed the carbon copies to press offices...
...that international bankers and utilities magnates had engineered Willkie's 1940 nomination. The faded sunflower, 1936 Nominee Alf Landon, pictured for freshmen G.O.P. Congressmen his own ideal candidate, who could not possibly have been confused with Wendell Willkie. The general anti-Willkie strategy: don't commit now, wait until convention time...
...Washington, press conferences have occurred during the absence of President Roosevelt. Soviet communiques are published without an order of the day by Stalin." Now the question was: What are they waiting for? The first answer came from Cairo and Washington: only Chiang has been with Roosevelt and Churchill up to this week; newsmen were told that further word from Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin would come "from time to time." The word to Japan: the U.S., China, Britain will beat Tokyo into "unconditional surrender." For their word, the Germans would have to wait a while. Americans could imagine the state of Germans...
Safe in the back hills of Lebanon, some 35 miles from Beirut, a Lebanese rump government sat tight last week and awaited developments in its struggle for independence with the French Mandate authorities (TIME, Nov. 22), Its best game was to wait, to let the pressure of a general strike, uneasiness throughout the Levant and the Arab world, powerful influence from Britain and the U.S. force the French Committee of National Liberation to come to terms...
Jean Helleu and his Senegalese did not have to wait long. Angry Arabs, armed with long-hidden rifles, homemade grenades, knives and stones, spewed out upon the streets. The French colonials went into action. Shots were traded, blood spilled. In the Place des Canons-the capital's Times Square-demonstrators cried: "A bas la France!" Nothing so menacing had been heard in the French Levant since 1925-27, when the Druses ran riot...