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...salutation "Dear Brethren" became "Dear Fellow Christians" at the behest of women delegates, some of whom felt slighted by ''brethren...
...least of Mrs. Roosevelt's effectiveness in the U.S. cause stems from the simple fact that she is a linguist. She has broadcast in German, Spanish and Italian. She speaks facile though slightly accented French; at the behest of the State Department last winter she not only delivered a weekly Sunday radio talk from Paris to audiences in France, Belgium and Switzerland, but was able to make the audience respond with a surprising volume of mail...
...wife's behest, he brought in a small sign which reminded him to "Keep Your Shirt On," and placed it on the table before him. Relaxed, nibbling on his tortoise-shell spectacles, at times almost hammily polite, he did not argue the fact that his law firm had represented United Tanker Corp.-a Chinese-financed firm which had bought surplus U.S. ships and shipped cargoes to Communist ports in 1949 and 1950. He was equally calm in the face of another fact: he is president of a philanthropic organization, China International Foundation, which control s United's stock...
...Aliens and allied U.S speculators had gobbled up 35% of Sun Life's stock. Out to Sun Life's Canadian stockholders went frantic telephone pleas from company officers not to sell, to "keep this fine old Canadian company Canadian." At the Dominion Insurance Office's behest, Canadian Finance Minister Douglas Abbott took one step to repel the invaders. He announced last fortnight that he would sponsor a bill to "freeze" Canadian insurance companies' dividend-payment policies...
Vyacheslav Molotov made a quick trip last week to Prague. At his behest, the Foreign Ministers of Russia's seven East European satellites were on hand to confer with him. There was good reason to believe that the Soviet Deputy Premier had a communiqué all ready in his pocket for the lesser comrades to initial...