Word: edmond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country was dumfounded. Outgoing Premier Ahmed Daouk pleaded wet-eyed for 90 minutes. Interior Minister Edmond Gaspard cried: "Had I the power, I would deny you the right to resign." Two prominent politicians got the news at bathing beaches and, dragging their robes, galloped across the sand to the nearest telephones. Shopkeepers in Che-hab's home town of Jounieh closed down to protest the resignation, and churches of his faith (Maronite Roman Catholic) tolled their bells in sorrow. Politicians kept Chehab's telephone jangling and pounded on the door of his Jounieh home...
...left the Star-Bulletin's newsroom for good. The 1954 death of Joseph R. Farrington, son of the paper's founder and longtime Hawaii delegate to the U.S. Congress, generated a court fight for control between Farrington's widow Betty and his sister, wife of General Edmond H. Leavey (ret.), ex-president of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Betty Farrington won a 2-1 majority, but lost the services of her editor and friend. In appointing Editor Allen as a trustee of the Farrington estate, the court stipulated that Allen would have to give up all participation...
Fire Me. But Gaullist ideologists in Debre's Cabinet-led by Minister of Industry Jean-Marcel Jeanneney and Justice Minister Edmond Michelet-had other ideas. To keep the French economy growing, they argued, the government must exercise more active control of business. They wanted to: ¶ Establish a government corporation, similar to Italy's state petroleum monopoly, to refine and market Sahara oil; ¶Adopt West Germany's"co-management" scheme-which would give France's heavily Communist unions seats on the board of directors of every important French company; ¶ Set up a government bank...