Word: conrade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When it comes to literary name dropping, English Novelist-Critic David Garnett has practically no peers. At 70, he can look back to a childhood spent in the company of literary lights like Joseph Conrad, Henry James, "Jack" Galsworthy, Ford Madox Ford. His father was a prominent publisher; his mother Constance was the industrious translator who gave a whole generation of English readers the feeling that all the great Russians (Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky) wrote in the same curiously flat style. With such parental credentials, "Bunny" Garnett became almost automatically a charter member of the post-World War I Bloomsbury group...
Says Inland Steel Chairman Joseph Block: "Everything has some labor content in it." And the notion that depreciation write-offs are even a partial substitute for profits leaves many a businessman cold. Says Conrad Jamison, vice president of Los Angeles' Security First National Bank: "Sure, you can put depreciation money into securities or pay it out in dividends. But sooner or later, you're going to have to replace that worn-out machinery, and it's almost a certainty you will have to pay more for the replacement than you did for the original. When you treat...
...cannot answer for what their ministries do, then parliament is not in a position to control the executive; and the German Federal Government the facade of it." (3) Why did the arrest take place suddenly and unexpectedly, three weeks after the article was published, and why was the reporter Conrad Ahlers (who wrote the article) mysteriously seized in Spain on the German government's order? (4) And lastly, was it all prompted simply by Herr Strauss' annoyance at Der Spiegel's interminable hostility to his policy and personality, and if so, was Dr. Adenauer a knowing partner? The Chancellor...
...Defense Minister. Last week Strauss admitted that he himself had telephoned West Germany's military attaché in Madrid on the night of the arrests, ordered him to "inform" Spanish authorities that a warrant of arrest on suspicion of treason had been issued against Spiegel Editor Conrad Ahlers, who was vacationing on the Spanish coast. Even though he willingly would have returned on his own, Spanish cops locked Ahlers up for 28 hours, sent him back under escort to Germany, where he was promptly arrested...
...night of Friday, October 26, security police sealed and began to search the offices of the news magazine Der Spiegel in Hamburg and Bonn. The magazine's editor-and-chief Rudolf Augstein and several Der Spiegel executives were arrested and jailed. Simultaneously, Spanish police arrested Conrad Ahlers, one of the magazine's assistant editors, in Madrid. These arrests aroused immediate public outcry against the Gestapo-like violation of freedom of the press...