Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week something got done about it in a hurry. A plum dropped in his lap - the $22,500-a-year tax-freer vice-presidency of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Regretfully, President Truman accepted Harold Smith's resignation, wrote him a glowing farewell : "Besides great ability, you brought to the work fidelity, integrity and loyalty...
...cleaning out of the Germans from the west bank of the Rhine in the battles of February and March 1945 (before the river was bridged) that Eisenhower regards as the third decisive phase The Germans again stood their ground too long; "... the war was won before the Rhine was crossed." In this phase, General Omar Bradley's tactical operations were "the equal in brilliance of any that American forces ever have conducted...
...political" general. But by inference, he dismisses attacks on his caution, declaring simply that to continue General Patton's armored blitzkrieg across the Rhine before Christmas was impossible. Not only had he outrun his supplies, but there were too many Germans in too good positions on the west bank...
Last week wealthy Eugene Meyer, who took over the Washington Post in 1933 and tripled its circulation by making it the best paper in the capital, stepped out to spend all his time as president of the International Bank. His successor...
Next day, long before 8 a.m., streets on the Left Bank were crowded with 33,000 students ready for their bachots. They milled around the historic lycees, waiting for the doors to open on their first exam (French Composition and Literature). But the doors stayed stubbornly shut. Officials posted a curt notice: Exam postponed...