Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Transamerica never confined its holdings to banks. It has a portfolio of listed common stocks. And it controls Occidental Life Insurance Co. Indeed, insurance, a business which is not unlike banking in that it is largely concerned with the collection and investment of savings, has long been a prime Giannini interest. The Gianninis bid unsuccessfully for big Pacific Mutual when it got in a rness year and a half...
...those instantaneous and, as Nazis say, "inspired" decisions which the Führer now & then makes: MOBILIZATION! Once aroused, potent Herr Hitler, with Teutonic ruthlessness, simply smashed brave, resourceful but basically impotent Dr. Schuschnigg. Crunch!-the heavy-handed German Chancellor dispatched from Berlin Schuschnigg's Minister Without Portfolio Edmund Glaise-Horstenau to demand within five hours a decree by the Austrian Government "indefinitely postponing" the plebiscite. This Chancellor Schuschnigg and Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas, who had just come from the pleasanter business of entertaining junketing Herbert Hoover, felt obliged to grant. Then again CRUNCH!-the Dictator sent by airplane...
Winston Churchill. "German air power is at least double ours and is being expanded at least double our rate." However, Mr. Churchill, who held Britain's Navy portfolio in the 1914 Cabinet added: "Relative to any navy in Europe today or to likely combination of navies in Europe we are in a far stronger position at sea than we were...
Arthur Seyss-Inquart. Five others were Nazi sympathizers but not Nazi Party members: the Ministers of Finance, Justice, Labor, Industry, and one, Without Portfolio...
...Front of Kurt von Schuschnigg. The Austrian Nazi Party was not legalized, but Austrian Nazis were told they might join the Fatherland Front whose official leader is Schuschnigg, whose vice-leader, Guido Zernatto, one of the Chancellor's most devoted followers, was given Cabinet rank as Minister Without Portfolio. It was clear that Jesuit-trained Kurt von Schuschnigg had not capitulated outright, had driven a bargain with Dictator Hitler...