Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cannes, Aly Khan's secretary mused that his master's coming marriage to Rita Hayworth "will break a lot of hearts. You know how it is. The prince has everything -position, money, looks. The women never let him alone for five minutes, and not only ordinary women, society women, too." The boss's bride-to-be, he had concluded, is "a lovely, simple girl. She's nice in spite of being a movie star, never paints or wears a lot of diamonds...
...that his own countrymen have accused him, behind their hands, of being more European than French. As permanent secretary general (i.e., top man) of OEEC (Organization for European Economic Cooperation), boyish, 37-year-old Robert Marjolin is in the first rank of a new group of civil servants, whose master is not a state but the idea of international cooperation. Last week he arrived in Washington with 18 French, British, Dutch, Belgian and Austrian aides to help ECA put its case to the 81st Congress, from which the Marshall Planners want $4.5 billion for the next year...
...yellow men. When governments opposed him, he felled them by withholding credit in his capacity as a regent of the Bank of France. When newspapers opposed him, he bought them. In the French "Who's Who," he described himself simply as "Maître de Forges" (iron master...
...drizzling rain around the village church to bury François de Wendel. On the day he died, he had become a grandfather. His only son's child was named François, so that another François de Wendel could some day be iron master, provided (as seemed likely) that Europe would still need armorers...
...have a look-around. Amid the bloodstained and ash-strewn debris, they put the cost at more than $1,000,000 worth of destroyed property, 1,000 injured and 300-odd killed. In all the misery brought on, however indirectly, by the grasping and oppressive hand of the master race, only one white man had died...