Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verbal confusion surrounding these proposals, an attempt has been made to cite, as having made "similar proposals," great world figures, even including His Holiness Pope Pius XII. All these men-like this Government, like all responsible and thoughtful leaders in the free world, statesmen or churchmen-are sincerely anxious for international agreement allowing effective control of all armaments...
...least temporarily. Industry wants special tax write-offs on $1.5 billion steel expansion, but Flemming says no final decision will be made until Defense Department reviews its requirements, probably around end of year. However, Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks and Flemming himself are all anxious to end tax write-offs...
...nagging loose ends: Was the acid bath to silence Riesel, as the Government insisted, or to even a grudge? If the columnist had to be silenced, why wasn't he murdered? And why should Dio, whose name had not appeared in a Riesel column since 1953, be anxious to attack him? Biggest question of all: Did the chain of command really stop at Johnny...
Shotgun Marriage. In 1951, while he was still at the Treasury, Bill Martin was handed the job of dissolving a shotgun marriage of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve. The Fed had been stripped of most money-regulating powers in 1941, when the U.S. entered World War II. Anxious to finance the war at low interest, the Government froze the discount rate at i%, suspended the FRB's right to alter reserve requirements, and harnessed it to an agreement to support, at par, Treasury securities, which supplied 60% of the cost of fighting...
...Come On Out." Art Langlie attributes his strongest traits of character to his mother, Carrie Langlie. Eldest of her three sons, he was born July 25, 1900 at Lanesboro, Minn., where father Bjarne Alfred Langlie clerked in a grocery and bakery. When Art was five his father, anxious for a better job, made the first of a series of moves that took the family from one Minnesota town to another and eventually west to Washington, where Bjarne bought a genreal store on the Olympic Peninsula and wired his family waiting in Minnesota to "come...