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...moments later, out stepped China's Vice Premier, Finance Minister, chairman of the board of the Bank of China, president of the boards of Yenching University, Cheeloo University, Oberlin in China, the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, the Confucius Society, and the Public Finance Association-all in the rotund, meditative person of H. H. ("Daddy") Kung...
...northern corridor into the Crimea. One by one, Red scouts mapped the German fire points : 200 in the first line, more in the rear. Other units made ready to cross the Sivash (also called the Putrid Sea), the stagnant, shallow western corner of the Azov Sea. Then the commander, rotund General Feodor Tolbukhin, expert horseman and veteran of Stalingrad, waited...
...wise and witty pedant: a lover of Greek verses, a professor of rhetoric, a biographer of Beethoven. He was the rotund trencherman: in the piping days of peace, he lunched on soup, a couple of trout, a partridge, vegetables, dessert, cheese and two bottles of Burgundy. He was a Gallic sentimentalist: cartoonists loved to draw him as a transparent body with half-a-dozen hearts. In politics he stood left of center, where the heart belongs, the leader of the Radical Socialists. In statesmanship he fell heir to Briand's mantle; he preached the gospel of a United States...
Pobeda I. To short, rotund General Leonid Govorov went the credit for the most momentous of the four successes. A month earlier he had been besieged in Leningrad. This week the Leningrad front was no more: Govorov's armies fought on Estonian soil. Estonia's capital, Tallinn, was only 150 mi. away...
Where will business find the billions of dollars needed for postwar expansion? Will private capital flood forth to finance new ventures and help small business grow? Or must business go hat-in-hand to the Government for money? Last week grey, energetic Herbert Frank Boettler, 53, and rotund, easygoing John Wesley Snyder, 47, both vice presidents of the venerable First National Bank in St. Louis, thought they had some answers to these questions. Their suggestion: that a titanic National Industrial Credit Corp. be formed to pump risk credit into business. Labor, business, banks, insurance companies, railroads and private citizens would...