Word: luxembourg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strange pushbutton in the kitchen, touched it. Soon, in answer to the robbery alarm, Perle, unprepared for an impromptu party, was visited by a horde of uninvited guests-six uniformed cops, two detectives, two alarmed men from the alarm company. Ever the soul of aplomb, ex-Minister to Luxembourg Mesta excb'ned it all, graciously bade a happy holiday to her callers...
From the 1931-1935 period to 1951, the U.S. cut tariffs by 75%, collected only 5.1% of the total value of imports; only eight nations (Japan, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, Argentina, Sweden, Norway, Holland) had lower percentages. Great Britain's trade-to-imports percentage is now 25.6%, Mexico's 20.6%. France's 10.6%, Italy's 8.4%. Canada, which gets more than 70% of its imports from the U.S., collects 10.2% on all U.S. imports, v. 2.7% collected by the U.S. on Canadian goods. Furthermore, according to a study by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT...
...Kliment Voroshilov, chairman of Russia's Supreme Soviet Presidium, he sent a personal letter marking the 38th Soviet national anniversary. ¶Significantly omitting a laborious presidential task of personally receiving new foreign emissaries, his staff announced routine receipt of accreditations for the new Ambassadors of Lebanon, Laos, Luxembourg, Iceland and Pakistan. ¶Through Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. he conveyed a plea for restraint in the Middle East (see below). ¶With "deepest regret," he accepted the resignation of Bernard M. Shanley, White House appointment secretary and former presidential counsel, who left to "resolve some...
...theater (Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin, Georges Pitoeff, Gaston Baty) swept into the House of Molière and swept out the mustiness and pedantry that had infected it. Today it consists of two theaters, the Salle Richelieu on the Right Bank, where classical plays are given, and the Salle Luxembourg on the Left Bank, where contemporary plays are given. It has a staff of more than 400 actors and technicians, and its repertoire is so immense that it could give a completely different program every day for five years. It gives its actors a chance to play...
...like. It was a miracle that I got out of Saigon with all my luggage." Biggest flop of her trip came when Ace Conversationalist Mesta tried for an hour to worm some pleasantries from India's Prime Minister Nehru. Sputtered the ordinarily voluble ex-U.S. Minister to Luxembourg: "I never had such an interview. I talked, talked, talked and got nothing...