Word: transact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the agency became aware of these facts and discussed them with Mr. Ladejinsky, he freely admitted the above actions." He thus seemed in clear violation of an ICA regulation that says: "No employee may transact, have a monetary interest in, or engage in any business or profession, for profit, in the country or countries to which he is assigned, either in his own name or in the name, or through the agency, of another person...
...Lone Star, Texas this week, the Lone Star Steel Co. will open a new $40,000 building where the company will make no steel, transact no business. The building is a chapel. There, a fulltime, specially trained Methodist chaplain will spend his time primarily offering aid and counsel to troubled workers. Similar pastor-counselor or devotional programs are fast spreading to dozens of other U.S. corporations. Next week in Cleveland, a prime topic at the National Council of Churches meeting will be the new industrial chaplain. The Northern California Council has already drafted a program to spread the gospel...
...opened a saloon. He sold a schooner of beer and a bowl of soup for 5? and refused to serve women customers. Named Tammany leader of the Gas House district, Murphy took station by a Second Avenue lamppost at 9 o'clock each evening, ready to transact business, personal and political, with all comers. In the year 1910, as Tammany's Boss, Murphy won control of both city and state; he was the first Tammany leader really to do so. When Murphy died in 1924 (while making plans to boom Al Smith for President), Mayor Jimmy Walker mourned...
Passport to Disillusion. For one year, one month and 13 days, the President Robert roamed the seas, putting in at port after port to enable Theodorus to transact mysterious international business ashore. None of the ports saw fit to recognize the C.C.S.D. passports or currency, so Theodorus' fellow passengers were forced to stay on board. Some were restive and disgruntled because the President had put silver piping on their uniforms while only a favored few had gold, but as long as the provisions held out, they were happy enough. In time, however, liquor and money were replaced by boredom...
East Pakistanis must transact official busi ness with Karachi in Urdu, the Western language, and not in their native Bengali. The United Front promised to do away with this "colonial status" and to speed up land reform with no compensation to the disliked landlords. East Pakistanis responded by voting the many-sided opposition local control of half of Pakistan. Mohammed Ali, a shrewd politician, had taken to East Pakistan's hustings in person to avert a rout, but not in time. This week he met Suhrawardy to lay the groundwork for settling East Pakistan's legitimate grievances...