Word: max
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fund of maneuver," Zorlu first went to the International Bank. The bank said it could advance no more funds unless the Turks drastically overhauled their policy and established their financial solvency. Menderes next called in an old friend, Max Thornburg, a rich, retired U.S. oil executive of 63 who lives on his own island in the Persian Gulf and devotes much of his time and widely admitted talents to helping Middle Eastern governments with their economic planning. Thornburg told Menderes that 1) he was rushing ahead too fast with his industrial-development program; 2) there was so little overall planning...
...this stout performance merely made it harder for U.S. officials to give their answer when Zorlu arrived in Washington last summer and formally held out his hand. The State Department had come generally to the same conclusions as Max Thornburg, was, if anything, more certain that Turkey's present course leads to bankruptcy. Additional U.S. millions, Zorlu was told, would merely stay the day, and Turkey would be back in a matter of months for more. When U.S. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey went to Turkey last month for the World Bank meeting, he put the U.S. position directly...
Dickie lived with his mother, and the first time he ever saw Max was when the great man visited him at school accompanied by his German mistress. Right in front of the horrified headmaster, she asked Max to father a boy for her, just like Dickie, whom she could take back to Germany...
Both Naomi and Max were good to Dickie only when it made them feel good. But the first time he saw mamma on stage, her performance made him cry. He knew then that the theater meant more to her than Dickie Savage. As for Max, he had his books to write, his pleasures to enjoy, his mistresses to cope with. But he tried to keep Dickie virginal, scolded him for wanting to be a poet, tried in fact to keep him from doing what Max Town had done...
When mamma marries a dull and decent man, then leaves him again for the theater, Dickie is the least surprised person in England. When one of Max's mistresses dies on his hands, and he, at 60, goes off with another, that too seems reasonable enough. With World War II just around the corner, Dickie Savage has in fact grown up and become a bit blasé. Heritage does not say that creative people are exempt from the rules of ordinary decency. But Author West tries to understand them and suggests that even illegitimacy and neglect...