Word: roland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French speakers, Roland Delcour, foreign editor of Le Monde, and Lionel Assouad, a publisher, identified themselves as opponents to their government's policy of holding on to Algeria as a French colony...
...surprise, Wisconsin's G.O.P. state convention papered over its perennial Old Guard v. Ikeman feuding in Milwaukee, settled last week on a promising new "unity candidate" to run for Democrat Bill Proxmire's U.S. Senate seat in November. The convention endorsed former State Supreme Court Justice Roland Joseph Steinle, 62, a burly (6 ft. 238 Ibs.) stemwinder with a cheesemaker's handshake who calls himself neither radical nor conservative. Steinle's prime asset : as a supreme court justice he was not involved in last year's bitter seven-man G.O.P. Senate primary in which...
...ministers were breathing heavily over U.S. "interference in French affairs," adamantly proclaiming their determination to resign rather than agree to "excessive concessions" to Tunisia. But two hours after sundown, when liveried footmen finally flung open the doors to mark the end of the session, florid right-wing Agriculture Minister Roland Boscary-Monsservin told waiting reporters: "There have been no resignations. The government has reached a decision in principle...
...Roland) Lancaster is an elderly, gangling man with a "raddled old face." Elsa is an untidy drifter of 28, thirty years his junior and fond of reminding him of it. Ro wants to while away the day talking about the years when he was a famous U.S. newspaperman; Elsa wants to spout her own grievances, including how she meant to write a novel but had twins by a bandleader instead. Ro and Elsa have come to Havana to make love, with a view to marriage, but when he touches her, she starts to protest...
Three for One. For a starter in 1956, Hanna quietly began to buy D'el Rey stock, then selling at $2.80 per share, bought 12% of the company. Then it discovered that it had competition. German-born Manhattan Investment Banker Leo Model, partner in Model, Roland & Stone and a man who had made (and lost to the Nazis) several fortunes, was also interested, bought in until he had 10% of D'el Rey's stock. When a third group-led by the small Manhattan brokerage firm of Osborne & Thurlow-started bidding and pushed...