Word: moratorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like watching a newsreel run backward, delegates from 23 nations have been meeting in London, threading their way through the financial tangles of two global wars. Phrases that were headlines a quarter-century ago (Dawes Plan, Young Plan, Hoover Moratorium) ran through their talk as they sought a way to settle Germany's $6 billion foreign debt. The problem, said U.S. Delegate Warren Lee Pierson, T.W.A. chairman and an old hand at international financial powwows, was "probably the most complicated in financial history." Last week, at a press conference in Manhattan, Pierson announced that the problem had been settled...
...abandoned the National Scholarship program for the duration of the war, had not geared itself to the upsurge of alumni activity at other colleges. F. Skiddy von Stade, Jr. '38, former Director of Scholarship Aid and new Dean of Freshmen, claims that the College lost many contacts during the moratorium. Conant believes that the movement for "Balance in the College" lost momentum about this time...
...chosen the pig as his symbol: "The Democrats have been hogging the Administration at Washington, for 20 years, and it's about time the people began to squeal." Besides warring on too frequent changes in military uniforms, Krajewski intends to campaign for an-income-tax moratorium on all incomes below $6,000. While he wants to win, Krajewski really favors a "two-President system." "If you had a Democrat and a Republican in the White House at the same time," he argues, "they'd be so busy watching each other that there would be no danger...
...Moratorium. In Idana, Kans., a stranger stuck up Basil Rankin's law office, found no money, drove away after Rankin reminded him that the premises were no longer occupied by a bank...
...there was no moratorium on unrest in Teheran...