Word: opener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Echoes of the discussion reached the Nationalist government in China, which promptly dispatched an icy notice of dismissal to Ambassador Tsien. That brought his followers out into the open: nine of the ten embassy staff members publicly announced that they had switched allegiance to the Communists, called on other Chinese diplomats to join them against "warmongers." Radio Peiping was delighted, but the French government was not. It withdrew diplomatic recognition from the renegade nine, and the Nationalist government dispatched a smiling troubleshooter named Tuan Mao-Ian from the London embassy to take charge of the Paris situation...
...Methodist Pastor Albert E. Day in announcing the appointment of the Rev. Walter Fiscus of Eugene, Ore. as his co-pastor: "In these days when there is so much discussion of church union, there are steps in fellowship that may well be taken by individual churches, advances that may open larger ways of cooperation between representatives of various denominations before organic unity between denominations is reached . . . This is definitely the era of the ecumenical spirit . . . Why should the church ask for international cooperation and refuse interdenominational cooperation...
...Brien complained: "We are not making enough films this year to keep open one quarter of our cinemas and the prospects . . . next year are worse . . . That is a ghastly fact...
With no warning to FRB, Transamerica President Sam Husbands announced a sale of 1,199,554 Bank of America shares on the open market, to lower Bank of America holdings from 22.8% to 11.1%. The stock sale, said Husbands, would bring in some $50 million which would be used "to liquidate loans" that were necessary to buy the stock originally "and to provide working capital...
...plays Joe Palooka on the screen, of trying to brew a romance between Shirley and Johnston. His alleged motive: to cut Johnston out with Miss Grayson. Just as angry in his denials, Kirkwood warned that any more such accusations would make him "blow the whole sordid mess wide open and let them all stew in their own juice...