Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home at quitting time, Finnish-born William Heikkila, 52. found two men waiting for him outside the offices of the San Francisco engineering firm where he worked as a draftsman. One flashed a badge. "Call my wife," Heikkila yelled to a fellow worker. "Tell her Immigration has picked...
...afraid of the political dependence that goes with it. Lawyers ask: Why not an international agreement that sets down the political rights and the economic responsibilities of the borrowers? Last year, speaking at the International Industrial Development Conference in San Francisco. German Banker Hermann Abs issued a ringing call for economic order through law. Such order, said Abs, can be achieved only through "an international convention by which all contracting parties, both typical capital-export and capital-import countries, undertake to treat foreign capital and other foreign interests fairly and without discrimination...
...Such a convention, which I may call a Magna Carta for the protection of foreign interests, should provide for a special international court of arbitration, which would determine whether cases brought before it involve violation of principles. I could well imagine that in case of particularly serious violations, the court of arbitration will be entitled by the terms of the treaty to oblige the member countries to refuse new private or public loans and credits to the country in default." The Universal Instinct. Through such efforts toward an orderly system that satisfies the principles held in common by most nations...
With only one or two exceptions, the coupons will be honored until Jan. 31, 1959. Present plans call for the H.S.A. to compile another issue of the Sampler for the Spring term next year...
Artemus Smith (a hardheaded businessman): As I was saying, Joe. I'm tired of all this pussyfooting. Why not come right out and call it a depression...