Word: transact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brotherhood" visit, as Frondizi himself put it, so the two Presidents had little official business to transact. That night Ike gave a white-tie dinner for the visitors at the White House, met with Frondizi two days later to chat about U.S.Argentine relations. Frondizi, through an interpreter, firmly told a joint session of Congress that the U.S. should fight the threat of economic chaos in Latin America as positively as it would counter an attack "from an extracontinental power." In between engagements he calmly kept in touch with simmering trouble at home (see HEMISPHERE...
...Neither Marshall, the Cabinet nor Congress was told the truth about his condition;* state papers were sent to Mrs. Wilson, who decided which could be shown the Chief Executive without exciting him, which must be passed on to aides for action. For some two months, Wilson was able to transact almost no executive business; during that period 28 Acts of Congress became law because he had not acted on them in the specified ten-day period. The President was unable to attend a Cabinet meeting for eight months. After Secretary of State Robert Lansing took affairs into his own hands...
Banking by Car. So that depositors can transact their business from their cars, the Community National Bank of Pontiac, Mich, installed a teller's curbside cage that rises like a freight elevator out of the sidewalk, still leaving room for pedestrians to pass. After banking hours the cage drops back...
...Carload on Wednesday. Even worse, says Illinois Bell, are the companies that use the no-toll long distance call to transact business. Some produce firms, collection agencies and manufacturers are among the offenders, costing the telephone company untold revenue every year. A fruit company in California may call its distributor in Chicago, and ask for "Mr. Brown." Translated, the words mean that it has a carload of seedless grapefruit at $2 a case. The answer, "Sorry, Mr. Brown is in Portland," means, "Fine, send a car load for Wednesday delivery...
...President of the Republic but not President of the Council (Premier), he will not be empowered to transact any business between Italy and the U.S. while here. But he can act as spokesman for his country. As for his own social and political ideas, and especially his ideas of foreign policy, he will be in a good position in Washington to speak for himself. He can be expected to do so with clarity and force...