Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helpful Huey. It was not the end of the slot-machine king. Costello had cultivated Senator Huey Long of Louisiana, a man he suspected of having liberal views on certain types of financial matters. The friendship paid off. Within a few months, Huey had granted Costello and Kastel a concession to operate their slots in Louisiana, and a new river of nickels began jingling into their coffers...
...professed to be a happy burgher and well content with his lot. But at other times he seemed like a restless man. He said: "We all got just a certain number of hours to live ... I don't understand why people waste time." Frank Costello, who had once lusted for wealth, lusted for respectability. He was steadily thwarted. He had lived by stealth and secrecy, had avoided newsmen like the plague, but his power and influence had brought him torrents of publicity...
...Germany would be permitted to enter certain international organizations, e.g.. the Council of Europe. (The Saar would be admitted to the council separately, on an equal basis with Germany...
...delays in working out solutions. Among the sorest points were the U.S. failure to iron out its air-rights agreement with Canada, and the dispute over judicial and customs rights at U.S.-leased military bases in Newfoundland (TIME, Nov. 14). Pearson also complained of the U.S. practice of barring certain Canadian visitors to the U.S. on seemingly capricious political grounds...
...send consuls and business representatives aboard and join certain international organizations, notably the Connell of Europe...