Word: nini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month the Melanesians were crying "Sing-out-Sorri" for the needy children of the whole world. "Palanti piki-nini," wrote a reporter in the Rabaul (New Britain) News, were in trouble, sick, starving, and "nogat moo, papa na mama" "Yumi ologeta," he wrote, "i halivim" (You me altogether we help 'em). In the U.S. some 25 private charities had half-heartedly joined with the U.N. to make the same sing-out in the United Nations Appeal for Children, but their unwieldy, badly organized campaign was a dud. Instead of a hoped-for $60 million it had turned...
...dissident, anti-Communist Social ists under Giuseppe Saragat have made no progress since their secession (TIME, Jan. 20). The one anti-Communist party which has done relatively well is Gian, nini's nee-Fascist Common Man movement, which appeals to many disillusioned Christian Democrats. It points up the obvious but disastrous desire (which helped Hitler and Mussolini to power) to fight Communism with typical totalitarian methods...
...booking passage home again. Walker had publicly announced that the books of Transamerica were padded with good will, inflated evaluations of subsidiary companies; that Giannini's $1,100,000,000 estimate of its worth was $800 million too high. He had sold the New York banks, booted Gian nini men out of Transamerica, was preparing to shuck off Bank of America...
...Bank's Charles Mitchell and Chase National Bank's Albert Wiggin for the title of the nation's biggest bank. Chase won out, via mergers with other banks, and held its lead till three months ago. Then a brash West Coast upstart, old A. P. Gian nini's Bank of America, pushed past...
Sviatoslav ("Nini") Stravinsky, pianist son of the composer, plays in Paris. Composer-Pianist Francis Poulenc has toured with a tenor, is preparing a ballet. French orchestras and the Paris opera give regular performances...