Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sought to create conditions of stability so that Britain and the U.S. might withdraw their troops while retaining their commercial access to the area. He recognized that while the West had no intention of securing its economic interests indefinitely by the overt use of force, neither did it intend to be deprived of those interests by force...
...tape-recorded message. Queen Elizabeth II, who was bedded in London with a sinus infection, announced to wildly cheering crowds at the Empire Games' final ceremony in Cardiff, Wales that Charles was getting the title which Edward I first bestowed upon his own son in 1301. "I intend," said the Queen, "to create my son Prince of Wales today. When he is grown up, I will present him to you at Caernarvon." In addition to being Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great...
From the refusal of a dozen-odd union officials, i.e., hoodlums, to testify, from bits and pieces of testimony from frightened victims, from facts pieced together by committee investigators, a solid picture emerged: racketeers have cut a slice of Chicago's restaurant unions and intend, unless balked, to expand into a boundless labor empire. Their plan is brutally simple: sell the café proprietor "protection" from legitimate unionization and collect monthly "dues" from him for a fragment of his staff-a fragment that rarely knows it has been organized. The weapons are terror, extortion and violence, wielded in many...
...lines of approach to the problem: 1) the U.S. will not pay "blackmail" to get the Americans out, and although 2) the U.S. does not intend to use force to get them out, 3) the U.S. hopes to convince the kidnapers through patient diplomatic negotiation that kidnaping is "counterproductive," i.e., hardly puts Americans in the mood for any kind of concession...
Steel specialists, such as Editor Tom Campbell of Iron Age, took President Hood's statement to mean simply that Big Steel, traditionally the industry leader in raising prices, does not intend to hike its prices July 1 but will do so eventually. Steelmen are awaiting an announcement this week of the Consumer Price Index to tell them how great a cost-of-living increase they will have to add to their contract wage boosts...