Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every year, State Department officials, foreign services officials, congressmen, columnists, and scholars, like salmon swimming upstream, come together to shout about the inadequacy of entertainment allowances for U.S. diplomats. "The total annual budget for 100 embassies and 350 consulates is $850,000"; it is an old and familiar grievance...
...financial game and was generally credited with Alleghany's success or failure. But cautious Kirby made the final decisions-because he had the money. Since Young perpetually in motion, they usually conferred long distance by phone were never very close socially. Once Kirby invited Young to his salmon-fishing camp on the Gaspe Peninsula. Kirby complained that Young spent most of the weekend writing a poem on salmon fishing. But the poem signed by Young, now hangs framed on Kirby s office wall, together with a picture signed: "To AIlan, the steadfast who made it possible-with my undying...
...this is not enough. He is now negotiating to buy the fishing rights for a six-mile stretch of the famed Restigouche River in New Brunswick, where he hopes to set up a camp and catch the big Atlantic salmon that course up the stream each year. He can afford it: since Brunswick's stock has been on its steady climb, the 360,976 shares owned by him and his wife are worth over $25 million...
...Warld War I, the American Committee for the Outlawry of War was formed under the guiding principle that the use of war as an instrument of national policy should be abolished. As a member of the committee, Judge Allen spoke all over the country and worked closely with chairman Salmon O. Levinson, who later strongly influenced the formation of the Kellogg-Briand pact making was a violation of international...
...Adams Museum in Quincy, Mass. From the Catskill (N.Y.) Public Library came a Prometheus Bound by pioneer U.S. Landscape Artist Thomas Cole; from Canajoharie, N.Y. a sensitive Italian Head by John Singer Sargent; and from Arizona State University, John James Audubon's Osprey and the Otter and the Salmon...