Word: presentments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March 23 issue you report that Alexander L. Guterma "won a round in his battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission when it rescinded the ban on trading in Bon Ami, a Guterma company." The [trading ban] was removed on the petition of this company [which emphasized that] the present management has no association whatsoever with members of prior management, including Alexander Guterma...
NATO Council President Joseph M.A.H. Luns (Netherlands): Those who in the present situation talk about "disengagement," "freezes," etc. are showing a mentality that comes close to neutralism. "Communism uses these people. It cajoles them, approaches them, assures them that Western concessions, withdrawal, disengagement will open the way to lasting peace. Most disengagement plans are essentially Communist creations, designed to neutralize Germany, to make Western Europe defenseless and to force the withdrawal of allied troops from the Continent-in other words, to deprive Europe and the alliance of the main pillars on which peace rests...
...Bargain. In this planlessness and confusion of purposes lay the seeds of Iraq's present chaos. When Aref flew off to Damascus for a much-publicized meeting with Nasser, and Egyptian MIGs began operating on Iraqi airfields, Kassem recoiled, began looking for allies against the eloquent Aref and his Nasserite followers. The Communists, who, alone among Iraqi political parties, had emerged from Nuri's police state lean, hard and well organized, were only too ready to give Kassem the help he wanted-for a price...
Canada's longtime aim in regulating immigration is to increase the population without diluting the British strain below its present 48%. This policy has no warmer proponent than Immigration Minister Ellen Fairclough, a member of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire and a descendant of a family of United Empire Loyalists who fled the American Revolution to remain under British rule in Canada. So to Minister Fairclough, the 1958 immigration statistics were frankly disturbing. For the first time since World War II, Britons failed to contribute the largest share of immigrants; they were outnumbered by Italians...
...Wife. Liz, who got to the dressing room just in time to hug a bare-chested Eddie, obviously agreed. Her 50-diamond bracelet, she announced at an impromptu press conference, was Eddie's engagement present. "We intend to travel and see as much of the world as we can," said Eddie. Added Liz demurely: "And we would like to travel as man and wife...