Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such a government. He suggested, in effect, that the economic reconstruction and the centralized government called for in Molotov's plan be started immediately by 1) lifting of zonal boundaries, 2) establishment of a central administration to which even the French had now agreed. But Molotov, despite his grand promises, refused. His stand forced Byrnes and Bevin to announce that the U.S. and British zones would merge. This should complete Germany's long-emerging division into an Eastern and a Western Reich...
...more clearly." An emergency Communist line was appearing, to the effect that Russia was merely trying to keep perfidious Albion's claws off the Ruhr. French Communists would have to take comfort from the thought that their present distress was only a tactical interlude in Communism's grand strategy, and that whatsoever benefited Mother Russia would benefit all her Communist children...
...kind of character an investigating committee likes to find. According to the F.B.I, he was once tied up in New York's brewery trade with gangsters Dutch Schultz and Owney Madden. He had twice gone through bankruptcy, had been arrested on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to grand larceny, but never served a sentence. Brother Henry Garrson had an impressive array of engineering degrees and a spotless record as an engineering consultant. But he had been indicted, tried and acquitted on a charge of pocketing a $5,000 bribe while working as an Internal Revenue agent...
...kept their old key posts of Interior, Information and Labor, in addition to the premiership, their only new portfolios were Finance and Internal Commerce, two difficult spots in view of Czechoslovakia's strained economic situation. Middle-of-the-road National Socialists remained strong partly because President Eduard Benes, grand, not very old (62) man of Czechoslovakia, belongs to their party. Jan Masaryk, an Independent, keeps the Foreign Affairs Ministry...
...soon as I entered the villa, Victor, with the hospitality of a gastronomic grand seigneur, led me to the kitchen and, opening the tremendous refrigerators, bared his culinary treasures. . . . There were mountains of the most beautiful sirloins, filet mignon, and chateaubriant, all the color of a pretty woman's lips; various cuts of lamb . . . capons, chickens and all sorts of birds. . . . I quickly decided on a filet to be broiled on hickory wood...