Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Khaki uniforms, for which we were fitted this week, must be paid for, and training over at Baker certainly shows that it is wise to pay for them as soon as possible. Deadline on Coop rebates for payments on khakis will be August 26th. Pay before then and you're getting outfitted at highly reduced rates. Maintain the account as a current liability and cost of fixed assets goes up ... or as we might have said two weeks ago much more simply. "Get it paid and you get it wholesale...
Approximately 90 Naval Communications wives met on Tuesday at the Union for their regular meeting and election of officers. Mrs. Marion Wise was elected Chairman, Mrs. Florence Taliaferro, Assistant Chairman, and Mrs. Mary Abbott, Program Chairman...
Nazi Restraint. The self-effacing but worldly-wise McKittrick was in the U.S. this year-he came out through southern France before the Nazis occupied it, and returned through Italy on a diplomatic visa (which the State Department did not obtain for him). While in the U.S. he did not comment on the fact that the Nazis refrain from using the Axis majority on the board of directors for unneutral undertakings. To all such queries he replied: "Remember, I'm neutral." Once he amplified this: "The policy of the bank can only be to remain entirely outside all matters...
...this, of course, will become a gigantic boondoggle for the benefit of foreigners alone unless U.S. bankers are wise in picking the purposes and setting the conditions of investment and unless U.S. politicians become skilled in understanding and explaining the tariff policies that must accompany foreign investment. Yet, beckoning on to such an effort, the opportunities for productive investment spot the world map like huge rough jewels. The prospector need only pick up a few samples to realize their value as cut and polished stones...
...after his arrival Joe Davies was summoned to the Kremlin. He had met Stalin five years ago, the climax of Mission I to Moscow. Then Joseph Stalin had impressed the Ambassador as "a strong mind . . . sharp, shrewd and above all . . . wise . . . exceedingly kindly and gentle. . . . A child would like to sit in his lap and a dog would sidle up to him." Now Mr. Davies found his old acquaintance as amiable as ever, still wearing a military tunic and boots, but looking healthier, a trifle stouter. Certainly, said Joe Davies later, "he doesn't look like...