Word: thereupon
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Winston Churchill thereupon endorsed Monnet's French passport personally, sent him to Washington to help coordinate Anglo-American war-supply planning. It was Monnet who conceived the idea of Lend-Lease. And it was Monnet who coined President Roosevelt's famous fire side-chat slogan: "We must be the great arsenal of democracy...
...Fifty years ago this month, a young student began attending this parish. His plans for life were unsettled. In December 1911. he joined this church as a layman. Two years later he entered Union Theological Seminary to study for the ministry. Thereupon he became a student assistant on the staff. On the first Sunday of April 1917 he was called to the pastorate of this parish. Now, after 50 years as a member and 44½ years as minister, I am announcing my retirement, to take effect December 31st next...
...Salvador, an American fiscal expert made the mistake of wearing white shoes to the office. He was practically ostracized, until a friend tipped him off that white shoes are taboo in the country. Thereupon he bought a pair of brown shoes and "noticed the immediate im provement in reception of myself and my technical advice...
...looked the day after his victory at Salamanca in 1812. Britain thus regards the portrait as a national treasure. When U.S. Oilman Charles B. Wrightsman bought the Duke of Wellington at auction (TIME. June 23). Britain-firsters of all kinds raised pained howls of protest. Collector Wrightsman thereupon offered to sell it to London's National Gallery at cost-the $392,000 that he had paid for it. Last week. Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd announced that the National Gallery had raised the money (?40,000 from the treasury. ?100,000 from a foundation established by Chain Store...
...mistresses about his troubles. Somehow she managed to get back to France herself to lead the fight for La Fayette's return. In the end, she forged a passport for her husband, got him into the country, and then persuaded Napoleon to let the old firebrand stay. She thereupon took on the job of rebuilding the family fortune-and being polite to La Fayette's newest muddle of mistresses...