Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...likes to quote). As the Treasury's top money expert, Burgess dabbles in such weighty and occult fiscal matters as rediscount rates and refundings, deals in sums that would frighten a lesser man. As manager of the biggest peacetime financing in history, he must raise $65 billion this calendar year. Last week Congress promoted Moneyman Burgess from Deputy Secretary to the new post of Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs at a salary...
...Yugoslavia, Marshal Tito, who has learned that one of the penalties of being a dissident Communist is the entertainment of all sorts of inquisitive capitalists, was in the midst of an even fancier social calendar. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, first crowned head ever voluntarily to visit a Communist country, dropped in and celebrated his 62nd birthday in Belgrade. Later this summer, to repay Tito's visit of last June, Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika will try out Tito's growing talents as a host...
...John Cooper frequently begins his day with breakfast surrounded by visiting friends. So hectic is the pace that his administrative assistant, Bill Macomber, finds it necessary to pick up the Senator and drive him to the office each morning in order to confer privately and get the Cooper calendar straight...
...Corporation does pass on some matters other than the purely financial affairs. It has examined a proposed merger with Radcliffe, the Faculty's merger with the Faculty of Engineering, and the official calendar. But these proposals go to the Corporation because of the financial adjustments they require, as the Fellows' concern is with money and its distribution. And since the President is always present, the Administration is assured that its viewpoint will be considered. The Faculty and the Overseers will rarely see the full budget until it has been passed and published...
...Fort Dix part or all of 43 days or nights during his first 75 days in the Army, although the average draftee was given passes on only nine of those days. This was illustrated by two charts that the Army presented. One chart used solid black squares on a calendar to show Schine's absences. The other used white squares with black borders to show normal absences by an average recruit...