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Wiley turned on a vigorous campaign, handing out his card to people in the streets, flattering the ladies. Once, at the Leyse Aluminum Co. plant in Kewaunee, he genially seized a labor union leader, waltzed him around the floor, singing, "Du, Du, liegst mir im herzen," as factory workers chimed in with "Ja, ja, ja, ja." Davis, meanwhile, turned on an equally dynamic but better-financed campaign, got in his share of the stop-and-shake technique...
...them last week, after a nasty fight with a policeman, "you shoulda seen that copper! One eye 'angin' out and 'is nose all over the side of 'is face, 'e wasn't 'alf slammed. Coo, they really 'ung one on 'im. And the funny thing-we 'ad to laugh-'e said 'e was gettin' married next week...
...month after his return to St. Louis, Martin was asked by War MobiMzation and Reconversion Chief John Snyder to join the Export-Import Bank as a director. Within a year Martin was appointed Ex-Im chairman (at $15,000), presided over the bank's expansion of capital to $3.5 billion. Determined not to allow the bank to become a handout window, Martin once refused to make a loan to China that had been requested by General George C. Marshall, then Secretary of State, insisted that he would never approve a loan unless it were economically sound. In 1948 Martin...
Within the next few months, the Brazilians hope to get from Ex-Im: 1) aid in refunding part of Brazil's $1.2 billion foreign debt so as to ease the repayment strain during the next five years; and 2) long-term loans, actual or promised, covering a large part of the dollar cost of Kubitschek & Co.'s five-year "Power, Transportation and Food" development program. Kubitschek himself plans to make a straightforward appeal to President Eisenhower at the Western Hemisphere Presidents' meeting in Panama. Another Brazilian of distinction who will work for the Ex-Im loan...
...name, one which was not synonymous with artistic integrity and financial incompetence, as was "Brattle." They also incorporated on a non-profit portantly, they affiliated with Harvard's Summer School, obtaining the use of basis so that contributions to the group would be tax-deductible. And, most im-have to develop over a number of years, depending on the initial success of this Sanders Theatre in return for paying maintenance expenses and obeying the fire regulations. It represents the first time a big eastern university has lent its name and cooperation for a venture of this sort. The prestige value...