Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...controls, substantially restore West German sovereignty. The U.S. hopes for a finished plan by late fall, France and Britain are in less of a hurry. ¶Also in Washington met U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snyder, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell, French Finance Minister René Mayer and the representatives of 47 other nations. Gathered to give the World Bank and International Monetary Fund a fiscal year-end review, they were telling stories of inflation and dollar gaps. Gaitskell promised that Britain would continue its rearmament, asked for U.S. help in obtaining scarce materials, particularly steel...
...months later, Mickey Rooney and Ava Gardner were married (over Metro Mogul Louis B. Mayer's massive opposition). The studio sent a pressagent along on the honeymoon. "When you came down to breakfast, he was there," Ava recalls bitterly. "When you had your dinner, he was there. When you went to bed, he was damn near there." It was enough to make any husband jumpy. "On our wedding night," says Ava, "Mickey was so nervous. He kept writing letters to people and walking up and down...
Pleven snapped up Schuman's offer to continue as Foreign Minister; he made Vice Premiers of two other familiar faces: René Mayer, for Economic Affairs; Georges Bidault, for National Defense. He neatly skipped across the stumbling blocks which defeated seven men before him: let the Assembly decide whether there should be State aid to Catholic schools, he pleaded, and let there be some kind of wage increases. France's four bickering center parties, so uncompromising before, agreed in hope of giving France a little stability. The Socialists refused to join his government, but promised to support...
Tears of Gratitude. Mario likes the grand gesture, whether he is in a temper tantrum or a mood of warmhearted generosity. When he learned that Louis B. Mayer, cofounder and chief of the M-G-M lot, seemed to be on his way out, Lanza remembered that Mayer had fought an almost lone battle to get The Great Caruso made. He telephoned Mayer to express concern and ask whether he could help the man long ranked as Hollywood's No. 1 executive. Mayer-as Lanza recalls the incident-wept tears of gratitude...
Gold in the Hills. Meanwhile, Lanza was making test records for RCA Victor to gauge when his voice would be right for commercial recordings. The records found their way to Ida Koverman, Louis B. Mayer's executive secretary, a power at M-G-M and a board member of the Hollywood Bowl. She played the discs for an impressed Mayer, then persuaded the Bowl to book Lanza. In the late summer of 1947, Lanza interrupted a concert tour to appear at the Bowl; it was his 200th concert. In one of his own favorite phrases, he fractured...