Word: councill
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...once openly at war with Harry Truman's Treasury Department, and continued to keep aloof in George Humphrey's day. Anderson persuaded Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. to drop around for informal sessions with the President, Anderson, Raymond Saulnier, Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and Presidential Adviser Gabriel Hauge. Thus, without binding Bill Martin, the Administration had its first regular forum for voicing its hopes and fears about Federal Reserve policies and their effect on the U.S. economy...
...side and Harlem's tenements on the other, are Columbia University and its Teachers College, plus Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Riverside Church, Juilliard School of Music, International House, and the Interchurch Center, which will be headquarters for many denominations as well as the National and World Council of Churches...
...their rescue came generous sponsors: the 27-nation Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration, which is paying their way to South America, and the Protestants' World Council of Churches, which found and bought their Brazilian refuge. The site: 6,000 acres of rich pineland, 10% cleared, about 200 miles southwest of Sāo Paulo. Led by 74-year-old Starik (Elder) Antonov Kulikov, the first contingent of Old Believers picked up 64 tons of seed, fertilizer, tools and clothing in Los Angeles from U.S. Protestants before sailing for Brazil...
...home. He hated to get up in the morning, indulged in two-hour-long hot baths, delighted in being rubbed down with Eau de Cologne by his valet. At work he tipped back in his chair, whittled away with a penknife on the arm of a chair. In council meetings he made such a habit of pilfering snuffboxes that his ministers resorted to bringing their snuff in cardboard boxes. Worried about becoming fat, Napoleon stoked himself through the day with licorice flavored with anisette. He bolted his breakfast, wolfed dinner in only 15 to 20 minutes...
...point of falling down." Léger, his tailor, reported indignantly turning down the Emperor's request to patch a pair of hunting breeches. And though Napoleon ennobled all his brothers, behind the scenes he ranted like any Corsican bourgeois, broke up one family council by musing aloud: "Suppose we sum up. Lucien is an ingrate. Joseph a Sardanapalus. Louis a paralytic. Jerome a scamp. As for you, ladies, you know what you are." Thanks to Author Jean Savant, the reader also gets all the goods on Napoleon Bonaparte...