Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more steel than Soviet Russia, do more of the world's trade (one-fifth) than the U.S. No warrior hosts throng around the eight-story Brussels headquarters of the Common Market. Calm-voiced Walter Hallstein, 57, the onetime German law professor who is the Common Market's chief administrative officer, is no Charlemagne. But he has powerful weapons in the freely given adherence and common aspirations of the people of six nations...
...could I refuse?" he asked rhetorically. "If I had said no, the Germans would just have taken it for nothing." So Joseph said yes and, as the chief German scrap agent in France, made a fortune variously estimated from $16 million to $84 million. Once, because of a delivery of defective copper scrap, he was thrown into prison for a few months, but he bribed his guards, and his cell was well stocked with foie gras and smoked salmon...
...earn enough money to reimburse the state . . . therefore I am compelled to leave France." Days after his departure, the police unearthed a vast financial scandal: groups of businessmen had looted a billion francs from the treasury by obtaining tax rebates on nonexistent metals and other goods. Said the chief accused, one Pierre Bercque: "I was just a cog in the machine. The real boss of our outfit was Joanovici...
...walked into his office as First Sea Lord, waving the Sunday Express, beamed matter-of-factly: "The Beaver's attacking me again-I must be due for a promotion." Within 48 hours came the announcement: next July, when R.A.F. Marshal Sir William Dickson retires, Lord Mountbatten will become Chief of the Defense Staff, top military man over all Britain's services...
Operations Chief to Supreme Allied Commander Southeast Asia, to Viceroy. He might then have had a political career. But there was one post he really coveted. His father, German Prince Louis of Battenberg (the family name, before it was Anglicized to Mountbatten), was forced out in 1914 as Britain's First Sea Lord because of his German origin. One day in 1955 Dickie Mountbatten sat down proudly in his father's old chair at the Admiralty...