Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Oglethorpe Hotel, amid the pines and palmettos on nearby Wilmington Island, the delegates turned to the immediate business of choosing a permanent site for the Fund and Bank, adopting bylaws, electing directors, deciding how new members may join...
Chief among the prospective candidates was Russia. Still declining to commit herself to the world economic program fostered by the U.S., Russia decided at the last minute to send an observer. Moscow knew she must join Bretton Woods before she could get a billion-dollar U.S. loan...
...Washington stuck doggedly to a "moderate" policy, Moscow cried out against Anglo-American "inadequacy," called for a "radical solution . . . immediate rupture of diplomatic relations with Franco. . . . As is well known, the Soviet Government . . . does not maintain any relations with Franco Spain." This week Washington and London declined to join Paris in citing Franco before the UNO Security Council as a menace to world peace. But Moscow agreed to go along...
...tried to live quietly en route. But, boarding his plane in New York, he said he had been treated so well there that he did not know "whether we should go to Rome or stay here." In Rome he shunned as many functions as possible, felt too weak to join the other newly hatted cardinals in their prostration of humility before St. Peter's altar...
About the same time, in Essex County, N.J., Frank Van Dyk, ex-hospital fund raiser, solved Blue Cross's worst handicap. He persuaded all the county's hospitals to join in one group, permit subscribers to go to any hospital they chose. This is now standard Blue Cross practice...