Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adolf Berle answered with many words, all of which reduced to: Wait and see. Thus the U. S. for the moment left its trade relations with Japan precisely as they had been, reserved the freedom to put on the clamps should Tokyo further injure U. S. sensibilities or rights in China. On the day when the trade treaty lapsed and this Damoclean policy went into effect, Secretary of State Hull was bedded with the sniffles. President Roosevelt was mum. U. S. scrap iron, oil, many another export essential to Nippon's Armies continued to move across the Pacific. Embargo...
There is, nonetheless, a skeleton in the closet: it is social democracy. Here is a problem far more perplexing than any arising from the union. Would there be serious consequences from the assignment of one group of students to wait on another? How real is Harvard democracy? They are questions to be raised, not answered now. Doubtless they are bothering both University Hall and the Student Council committee. To conclude that all would be perfectly tranquil is certainly unrealistic; to say that Harvard would be divided into social castes is to subscribe wholeheartedly to New Haven versions of Harvard life...
...went to Harlem for one last fling before returning to the land of Aryans. When it was over he found he had lost $117. He got a policeman to arrest his party companion, a Negro lady named Miss Reno Jones. In court, the judge told Otto Prignitz he must wait, perhaps several weeks, to testify against Miss Jones. "I cannot wait that long," blustered Otto Prignitz. "I must obey Führer Hitler and get back to Germany at once. It is obvious I am needed there." The judge decided to make sure that the alleged thief of Patriot Prignitz...
...stock market did not wait for the Federal Reserve announcement. The Dow-Jones Average of 30 Industrials, whose War II's high was 155.92, broke to a new wartime low of 144.65. Conspicuous among those leading the market down was Wall Street's No. 1 counter, U. S. Steel. From 1938 until last summer Big Steel was called the highest-priced stock on the board because its price was more than infinity times its (zero) earnings. Last week Dow-Jones estimated that the post-peace steel rush had netted Big Steel $2.70 a share for the year...
...have eaten up our last kopeks. What in the world will Lyonya and I do? I inquired about the letters I sent you...must wait forty-two days, and then file a written request for tracing them. I have no idea where...