Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guidance and argument, Bevin & Cripps had a 15,000-word brief approved by the British cabinet. When they reached New York this week, they would have further briefing from Sir Henry Wilson Smith, the chief of their advance working party in Washington...
Kick from Behind. Osaka's Communists tried but failed to make capital of the "rationalization" firings, thanks largely to the vigilance of the city's hefty, even-tempered police chief, 49-year-old Eiji Suzuki. Chief Suzuki started his regime by cleaning up Osaka's formidable gangs of thugs and black-marketeers. When the Communists began making trouble, he went after them with equal vigor. Last July, when a Communist-published kabe shimbun (wall newspaper) published stories charging G.I.s with attacking Japanese women, Suzuki saw his chance. Under an Army directive forbidding falsification of news about...
...still dallying with his old friend Paz Estenssoro, he was carefully concealing it. Having previously packed the M.N.R. leader off to Uruguay, he closed the Bolivian border, ordered his police chief to keep a sharp eye on other Bolivians still in the country, promised to arrest any rebels chased across the border into Argentine territory...
...week, students were searching for the thoughts in some of his best works. On the surface, many of the paintings looked like mere blood & thunder illustration. Delacroix had applied his fierce imagination and brilliant, Rubensesque draftsmanship to an endless series of somber myths, tiger hunts and desert duels. His chief thought seemed to be: "It's a cruel world, and one in which men play a bravely ineffectual role...
Ward knew that the wartime textile boom would not last forever. Three years ago he set his research chief, Everett Nutter, to developing a new cloth to meet the hot competition of rayons and tropical worsteds. The shakedown in the textile industry came before Nutter's new fabric was ready. In the first three quarters of Goodall-Sanford's last fiscal year, the company's profits fell 51%; Ward quickly decided on his price-cut to clear out stocks for his new fabric...