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...taks), v.t. [OF. taxer, fr. L. taxare to touch sharply.] -Webster...
...holdover in the Administration when President Eisenhower called him to the White House to announce his reappointment as chairman in March 1955. At the same time, Ike confided, he intended to announce that Martin would also be named to a full 14-year term as a member of the FR Board of Governors when his predecessor's term expired in another nine months. But Martin persuaded Eisenhower to postpone the advance nomination. "Mr. President," he smiled, "by next January we might have a big depression. You would be very embarrassed to have a commitment to name...
FIRST PRIVATE LOAN for European Coal and Steel Community from U.S. bankers is coming. Six-nation group set up in 1952 to provide single production and selling group for coal and steel has asked three big U.S. investment houses (Kuhn, Loeb; First Boston; Lazard Frères) to help plan multimillion loan to modernize coal mines, coking plants, etc. Previously, Community borrowed $100 million from U.S. Export-Import Bank...
Cease to Tease? Frémont had what some might consider too neat a talent for winning the friendship of useful men. First it was a lawyer who sent him to college; then it was a man who became Secretary of War; most importantly it was Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, whose daughter Jessie he married. For the illegitimate son of a woman who had run away from her husband in favor of an itinerant French schoolteacher, Frémont came a long way. As a general in the Civil War, he incurred Lincoln's distrust...