Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...KNOW WHO YOUR SOURCE WAS ON YOUR DEC. IO REPORT OF MY CONVERSATION WITH SIR IVONE KIRKPATRICK, BUT YOUR ACCOUNT OF WHAT HE IS ALLEGED TO HAVE SAID TO ME IS INACCURATE, TENDENTIOUS AND UNFAIR TO US BOTH. HE MADE NO SUCH STATEMENT AS YOUR ACCOUNT ATTRIBUTES...
...Jews." Morning, noon and groaning night, all conscious attention was turned to the closed doors behind which American immigration authorities worked to speed the screening process for entry into the U.S. They were hampered by the impersonal provisions of the McCarran-Walter Act, which took everything into account but the human heart. Nonetheless, under orders from Washington and by their own compassion, they were straining the law to its utmost to make their nation live up to the refugees' unseeing, unreasoned faith...
...State John Foster Dulles to report to President Eisenhower on what he called the "important and productive" meeting of the NATO Council (see FOREIGN NEWS). On balance, the evidence bore out the Secretary's estimate. Militarily, the council had revised its ideas on mutual defense to take account of modern weapons-and the U.S. had promised to supply NATO with arms capable of firing atomic warheads, while keeping the warheads in reserve. Politically, the members had agreed on a high degree of foreign-policy consultation and coordination, even though the U.S. had stood by its right to independent action...
...Essentially Sound." Said Director Jacobsson: "The trading position of the United Kingdom has been and continues to be essentially sound." The new "pressure was not caused by weakness in the current account, but reflected a decline in confidence." The fund's "support on a massive scale" would "effectively contribute to restoration of the strong balance-of-payments position...
Here and there some discrepancies crept into the account. A few years ago the Methodist stewards had to remove Rose as church treasurer for the unbankerlike reason that his accounts were too careless ly handled. He was careless in other ways, too. Many was the time he would put through a businessman's check even when the account was overdrawn, then phone and say: "Pay me when you get it." Faced with such freehanded competition, one Ellenville finance company folded up and left town...