Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist victory in China changed the political and strategic map of the world; therefore, it required far-reaching policy decisions by the U.S. Last February Secretary of State Dean Acheson postponed these decisions by saying that he would "wait until the dust settles." Last week China's Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung settled the dust; he made an air-clearing statement that disclosed the U.S. already standing at a crossroads which the State Department had hoped it would not reach until the weather got cooler, say in October...
...wait -until - the -dust -settles" policy; it was at least and at last beginning to think about Asia. Before he left for Paris, Acheson, after some prodding from Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, had ordered Policy-Planner George Kennan to work on the problem. Last week Kennan handed his boss the first tentative outline of what might be done...
Last month, Western officials cautiously started to let some money pour into West Germany's economic pool. The Bank Deutscher Länder relaxed credit restrictions by lowering the rediscount rate for its member banks. West Germany's economic boss, Dr. Ludwig Erhard, announced an 8½-billion-mark investment program for the coming fiscal year...
...said that he was getting old, reminded them that his father lived to be 105. But his face had turned yellow with age; he had repeated heart attacks. Greek government officials began to carry black ties in their pockets, to be ready for official mourning the minute the boss died. It was said that during one of his attacks, last year, when doctors tried to move him to the left of the bed on which he lay, The Old Man muttered: "No, please-let me die in the center...
...Want Minnie." Plump, greying little Minnie (Mrs. Charles) Guggenheimer, 67, had not planned to make a speech this year; in 32 years as boss of the stadium concerts, she had made the same decision only once or twice before. But when the chant, "We want Minnie, we want Minnie," showed no signs of a diminuendo, Minnie gave...