Word: intendent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...talks with the Iranian government. Forthwith they got a truculent ultimatum from Iran's finance minister: within three days the British must hand over 75% of their oil profits since March 20. Alternative: Iran would break off the talks. The British, who know that Iran needs money, and intend to play that card for all it is worth, replied that they were ready to make a "goodwill payment," but for the moment no more...
...suspected, at bluffing the morning Globe-Democrat into merging production facilities with the Star-Times -was not working out. Said Roberts: "As a businessman, I've given 36 years of my life to this business. But I'll be 60 next March, and I don't intend to go broke gracefully." The outlook for almost 600 Star employees, including 100 editorial staffers, was dark. Some of them grumbled that Roberts should have found a buyer who would keep the paper going. The P-D promised to hire "some, but not many"; the rest would leave with severance...
Actually, neither Rusk's nor Dulles' speech had been read in advance by Acheson, though the Secretary knew the speeches were to be made. Such clearances aren't necessary, a State Department man explained, unless you intend to say something new, in which case the speech should be submitted to an Acheson helper named Jeffrey Kitchen. Rusk had thought he was only restating the obvious, and was as surprised as anyone else when the British Foreign Office began expressing alarm, and the State Department issued a hasty handout saying that China policy is unchanged...
...almost all the ground for which the Chinese had paid so heavily in blood. Said Van Fleet: "The 38th parallel has no significance in the present tactical situation. It means nothing to me. The Eighth Army will go wherever the situation dictates in hot pursuit of the enemy. We intend to exploit every advantage in carrying out our objective to find and kill them...
Asked yesterday point blank if he would give up coaching, Bolles parried the question. "I'm the rowing coach until June 22," he said, "and don't intend to cross any bridges in he meantime...