Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks for the portrait of Russia's Man of the Hour. Smiling so benignly, who would doubt that he has a heart of gold...
...they fell quiet. From the south end of the hall, the legal pageant of Britain began to emerge and debouch onto the stone steps that formed a stage-judges of the High Court of Justice in ermine-trimmed scarlet; Lords of Court of Appeal in black knee breeches and gold-braided gowns; Lord Goddard, 80 years old, Lord Chief Justice, wearing an extra S-shaped band of gold braid. Trainbearers, bearers of the standard and the mace, each entered and took an appointed place. Lord Kilmuir, the Lord High Chancellor, draped amid flowing robes, impassive under a full-bottomed...
...everything." Slim and younger looking than his 42 years, Antonio Giolitti bears one of Italy's biggest political names. His Liberal grandfather was five times Premier of pre-Mussolini Italy, and it is still remembered that "under Giolitti 100 lire in paper was worth 101 in gold." Young Antonio, brought up under Fascism, became a Communist in 1940, organized the famed partisan Garibaldi division during the war, was badly wounded fighting in his native Piedmont mountains. Trading on his war record (and his grandfather's name), he was a great vote-getter and a comer in Communist politics...
Bernstein urged putting an end to Britian's "transitional restrictions" on free conversion of sterling into gold and dollars, since, he said, de facto convertability already exists in New York and Zurich. A reserve currency must be convertabile, he said. International institutions, such as the Monetary Fund, can combat drains on gold and dollar reserves, he added...
While the Administration beat the bushes for a successor to Defense Secretary Charles Wilson (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Charlie celebrated his 67th birthday at a dinner party in the gold-carpeted dining room of Wilson's Pentagon suite, beamed as Mrs. Wilson (Jessie Ann) bestowed on him a china caviar bowl and a Christian Dior shirt...