Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WEST Germany has taken a step toward freer exchange of its money with other currencies. It will allow foreign exporters and businessmen to deposit Deutsche Mark proceeds of their sales in accounts that can be converted to dollars or foreign money. Businessmen from hard-money nations, such as the U.S. and Canada, will have no restrictions, but those from soft-money countries, such as France and Turkey, may convert only to other soft currencies...
...club officers decided there was not enough time during rehearsals to sing "Polly Wolly Doodle All the Day" and determined to convert the Club into a genuinely ambitious choral organization. Davison agreed with the plan to separate from the instrument clubs and the big switch from "the Bullfrog on the Bank" to Bach was made...
...adventures, however, perhaps the most revealing was a brush with the Pope in 1910. On a visit to Europe after his audience with the Pope, then Plus X. At the time the Pope was troubled with the presences in Rome of some American Methodists who were trying to convert Rome from Catholicsim to Methodists. The Pope asked Roosevelt not to recognize the Methodists; the Methodists asked him not to see the Pope. Roosevelt compromised by ignoring both, thus "asserting his independence from either Church," as he related to President William Howard Taft on his return...
...Chen married Tan Hsiang, comely daughter of Nationalist China's first Premier, and they now have six children, all attending school at Taipei. Tan, a Christian, has tried to convert her husband to Christianity, but he remains loyal to Confucius...
...magazine was planned four years ago by Editor Rice and Roving Editor Robert Lax, 35. Rice and Lax, a convert to Catholicism, had been talking religion since their student days at Columbia-where Rice was the godfather of another Manhattan convert, Thomas (The Seven Storey Mountain) Merton. Working with Peter J. McDonnell, a printing salesman and now Jubilee's advertising manager, they financed their project by offering one share of stock with each $5-a-year subscription. When they had a slim $60,000 to go on, they put out their first issue. Now Jubilee has Editor Rice...