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...used his Capitol office to transact private business, such as dispensing large amounts of cash...
...mood, Park advised women to wear their skirts shorter and demanded crew cuts for men. Above all, civil servants must stay out of kiseng (geisha) houses. That, declared the proprietress of a big kiseng house in Seoul, was carrying things too far. Said she: "Where else can government officials transact their business...
...flew from Boston to Ankara. Last week, after Dr. Adams had examined General Gursel, the relieved panel of doctors announced that the general's disability was only a "minor circulatory disturbance in the nervous system." At week's end the general, his paralysis gone, was beginning to transact state business from his bed, was expected to be fully restored and back at his desk in a matter of weeks...
...majority of five is needed to elect a mayor, although the city can function in the absence of one. Under Plan E, its executive department is run by a City Manager, responsible to the Council. While the stalemate continues, however, the Council cannot transact normal legislative business...
...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...