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...year-old Mayor Bowron, a chronic worrier, this has merely meant more problems to worry about, e.g., how to get more houses, more schools, more water, more express highways. Says he of his sprawling city's increasing bigness: "I hated to see it come, but here...
Princess Elizabeth and Philip got an official worrier to take care of the grocery bills & so on. Appointed household controller and treasurer: Lieut. General Sir Frederick A. M. Browning, wartime Chief of Staff of the South East Asia Command, husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier...
Worried. El Khoury is a natural worrier. In the fall of 1944 he had plenty of troubles-his wife's illness, his scapegrace son's escapades, his efforts to get rid of the French (who had jailed him for opposing them...
...ready and willing worrier about the state of the nation, the state of the world -the Near East, the Middle East and the Far East. The starving millions have given me many an uneasy moment. I also worry about inflation and deflation, to say nothing of a husband, two children and a dog, and a mortgage...
...rnberg, or the seeming lack of it, worried many a worrier. Nobody had formulated the doubts very well. But they existed: Justice Jackson's whole statement to the Court was an attempt to meet them. He bluntly said that the charter of the Nürnberg tribunal, completed three months after V-E day, was the ex-post-facto law on which the trials were based. He cited some precedents for the master charge (the unratified Geneva Protocol of 1924, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, various League of Nations declarations treated aggressive war as an international crime). But, with more...