Word: interior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chris Herter's life has been shaped for his new job. Born in Paris of American parents, he studied interior decoration in New York, left to accept a minor post with the U.S. embassy in Berlin in 1916. At the Versailles conference, he served as aide to U.S. Delegate Joseph Clark Grew, later became executive secretary of the European Relief Council and traveled around ravaged Europe with Relief Chief Herbert Hoover...
...Those who had been against aggression, but afraid to speak out, were condemning Mollet in almost the same terms as those who favoring aggression, now resented his failure to finish the job. Mollet's own Socialist Party was split last week: 17 Socialist Deputies, including former Minister of Interior Jules Moch, demanded an extraordinary national party congress to review Mollet's record. The Radical Socialist Party headed by Pierre Mendès-France threatened to withdraw its 13 ministers from Mollet's coalition Cabinet unless he revised his Middle East and Algerian policies. The M.R.P. (Catholic) Party...
...daughter and her daughter's daughter, Tulla. "And I was a little girl, once," she laughs when she explains her name. She seems to have a sort of quiet discipline which will insure the shop's cleanliness, and has herself designed the airy, and as yet unfinished, interior...
...first glance, but after watching him for a few minutes you would decide that he was not imposing at all. His clothes had a slept-in look, and it was obvious that his laundry was late again. Hubert was majoring in fine arts because he wanted to be an interior decorator. Interior decoration begins at home, you might comment after seing Hubert, but he would not care about your opinion...
...wells, lost a wad (1914-15) trying to establish a third major baseball league, by 1916 founded the Sinclair Oil & Refining Co., bought a string of racehorses (his Zev won the 1923 Kentucky Derby), in 1922 leased the Navy's Teapot Dome oil reserve in Wyoming from Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall; in Pasadena, Calif. Buoyant Harry Sinclair survived when Teapot Dome blew up in a scandal (he was acquitted in 1928 of conspiracy with Fall, served six and a half months for refusing to answer Senate investigators, having his jurors shadowed). went right on making millions, until...