Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual convention at Strasbourg last week, France's Catholic, middle-of-the-road M.R.P. chose a new president. He was Georges Bidault, one of the party's founders and France's former Foreign Minister, who had won out over Pierre Henri Teitgen, gaunt ex-Minister of Justice, his rival for the party presidency. Bidault's election raised a big question: would he lead his party rightward from its present "Third Force" position into an alliance with Charles de Gaulle...
...also a Christian minister on a mission, armed with a quiet dignity that enabled him to cope equally well with wise-guy radio hucksters and gushing females. His mission: a three-month Seventh Day Adventist-sponsored tour of the U.S. to encourage his fellow Adventists in their aggressive foreign missions work. The 86-year-oLd sect could scarcely have picked a better...
...Said Lord Beaverbrook's astonished Evening Standard: "Here at last is a foreign orchestra that can play God Save the King, although nearly two centuries have passed since it ceased to be the American anthem...
What's wrong with the airlines? They're too pampered. That is what hard-jawed Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, president of profitable Eastern Air Lines Inc., told the Senate Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce last week...
...William J. Donovan and Britain's Sir William Samuel Stephenson, World War II boss of all British secret operations in the Western Hemisphere. At war's end, they and associates* formed the World Commerce Corp. and raised an initial $1.000.000 to help "bridge over the breakdown in foreign exchange." Their plan: to provide the tools, machinery and know-how to develop untapped resources. Last week, in Jamaica, World Commerce Corp. was in the midst of one of its biggest developments to date...