Word: asked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wilfrid Eady, who succeeded Lord Keynes as traveling ambassador for the British Treasury, and Cameron Cobbold, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, had got as far as India. They had come to ask how much of a ?1,250,000,000 debt could be written off, and what the terms for the rest would be. On the way home they will stop at Bagdad, where more than ?100,000,000 is due Iraq; then on to Cairo to talk about the ?450,000,000 owing to Egyptians. The two may also visit Palestine, where the debt already tops...
Sweating out" the American loan had been bad enough for Britain. Now Sir Wilfrid and Cobbold, on behalf of the nation that only yesterday was the world's banker, had to ask financial peoples whom many Britons still regard as of the "subject races" to show Britain financial mercy...
India, moreover, slightly inebriated by the scent of independence in the air, wants payment to the last rupee. They ask that a large chunk of the debt be paid off at once, another chunk by 1950, and the rest...
Next night Greek Leftists, supported by the Russians on the Commission, pressed for a second intervention for six more condemned men. While the Commission deliberated, Kyrou-all set for a party, in white tie & tails-nervously paced the corridor. At 11 p.m. the Commission finally decided to ask the U.N. Security Council back in New York for guidance. Meanwhile, the Greek Government executed the six. It then complained formally that the Commission had interfered in Greek domestic affairs by requesting a reprieve for the first five. The Security Council, by unanimous vote (with Russia and Poland abstaining), instructed the Commission...
...piano in a cabaret to support his first wife and their small son. It was a big break when the local opera director let him conduct Verdi's Ernani: "The smell of the scenery, the makeup, the wigs . . . you can't get it out of your system. Ask any opera man." In 1924 Leopold Stokowski, visiting Warsaw, met Rodzinski, later hired him as assistant conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. When Rodzinski reached the U.S., the first thing "Stokie" did was to run his fingers through Rodzinski's slick and parted hair, "to give me a conductor...