Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During those years, Nelson Rockefeller: ¶As Inter-American Affairs coordinator (1940-44), drew up a blacklist that steered U.S. businessmen away from 1,800 Latin American Nazi-serving firms, also arranged loans by which Latin Americans could buy out German interests. ¶ While Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs (1944-45), fought for a clause in the United Nations Charter far more vital than he knew; thinking primarily of Latin American relations, he enlisted the aid of Michigan's late, great Senator Arthur Vandenberg, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, in providing for the right...
...Colonel is an extremely successful movie version of S. N. Berman's Jacobowsky and the Colonel, which was itself an adaptation of an earlier play by the German writer, Franz Werfel. Despite the fact that it is essentially comic and optimistic, the main interest lies in the character of the anti-semitic Polish officer who is also escaping the German onslaught, and is forced to join Jacobowsky in the flight from Paris. Before the inevitable conclusion in which fellowship overcomes prejudice, the Colonel displays most of the personal traits idealized by the pursuing enemy...
...responsible for France's political troubles. According to him, these institutions expressed all too faithfully the many divisions of French thought and interests. Hence the impotence of the Executive, which depended for survival on heterogenous, unstable coalitions, and which could do no more, on crucial issues such as Indochina, German rearmament or Algeria, than accumulate postponements until external events imposed their own solutions...
High Return. Accepting the challenge, young (41) Detroit Builder Herbert S. Greenwald and famed German-born Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe turned out a design that won architects' praise, bank loans, FHA mortgage guarantees. As fast as they complete one building unit, they pay the city an average of $125,000 for the land. The city then buys more slum land for urban renewal. Not only merchants will profit from the redevelopment; city real-estate tax collections from the area will jump...
Stein Way. In Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, crewmen from a German timber freighter said they had run out of water during their voyage, but had been able to finish the trip on beer...