Word: baillieu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wide disagreement on foreign-trade policies. U.S. delegates were the staunchest and well-nigh only advocates of free competitive trade, even though they showed no unanimous disposition to make the sacrifices postwar free trade would entail. Virtually all other delegates leaned towards cartels. Britain's Sir Clive Baillieu (pronounced Bailey) favored some control by "continuous and public review" of cartels-which he euphemistically called "trade accords...
Plain-spoken and informal, Bill Batt is the best-liked of all defense officials. Among his friends are such diverse characters as Harry Hopkins, Jesse Jones, Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, Sir Clive Baillieu of the British Purchasing Commission. Nobody calls him Mr. Batt; he is always referred to as Bill Batt-pronounced as if it were one word. When he called Jesse Jones last week, a warmhearted Texas girl in Jones's office said: "Jus' a minute, honey." All Washington thought that Bill Batt and Donald Nelson would make a good team...
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