Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exotic Resolutions. Markos, since proclaiming himself Premier of the "Provisional Democratic Government of Greece" last Christmas Eve, has not only been issuing conscription orders but otherwise acting like a government. Around him he has a "cabinet" of twelve men. Slight, dark Petros Roussos is Minister of Foreign Affairs; short, bespectacled Ioannis Ioannides, a consumptive ex-barber who went to Moscow's School of Eastern Studies, is Markos' Vice Premier and Minister of the Interior; Minister of Justice is Miltiades Porphyrogenis, a 45-year-old lawyer who has been busy organizing an international brigade to help the Greek Communists...
Called for: a $10,000 grant from the American Cancer Society to Paris' Radium Institute; by French Journalist Eve Curie, daughter of radium discoverers Pierre and Marie. Daughter Eve was invited to pick up the grant at the society's banquet in Philadelphia this week. Available in the U.S. but not invited: Eve's fellow-traveling sister Irene, a director of the institute's physics laboratories...
...discussions with Washington and conversations with government leaders abroad," Mr. Linen said, "have made it clear" that it would not now be fitting for us to press our invitations to the heads of state, foreign ministers, and other government officials of Western Europe on the eve of a crisis as grave as the one looming over their countries today. Recent events signal all too unmistakably the fact that April will be a period of crises almost certain to tie top government people to their desks abroad...
...that their own needs are being overlooked. ERP's promise of dollar-financed purchases in Latin America, mostly from Argentina, do not satisfy them. They want U.S. dollars to build up home industry, raise cellar-low living standards. The most the U.S. was prepared to offer on the eve of the conference was an increase of $500 million in Export-Import Bank lending authority, and an easing of the bank's rules so that more dollars could flow southward. There might be World Bank help, too. The U.S. intended to tell Latinos that their best...
Dana remarked that the Russians recognized that English art and drama was part of the heritage the Red Army fought to preserve in the last war. "On the eve of the German invasion in 1941," he said, the main attraction in Moscow was "Midsummer Night's Dream...