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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 5, 1977
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We misstated Rep. Tom Harkin's amendment to a foreign-aid appropriations authorization bill, when we commented Monday on the House's assault on the World Bank. The Harkin amendment does not single out specific countries. The real trouble lies, as we noted, with the much more drastic and explicit language that the House is currently trying to make the Senate accept in the appropriation bill. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 16, 1977
John McKee, 86, Ex-Banker |
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John K. McKee, 86, a former banker and member of the Federal Reserve Board, died at Sibley Memorial Hospital Thursday of an apparent aneurysm.Mr. McKee was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., and began as a bank messenger there. He served in the Army in France during World War I, and then returned to banking. He came to Washington in 1931 and worked in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as a receiver for banks that were failing during the Great Depression. He later became chief bank...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 7, 1977
Former Feds Finding Homes In Private Jobs |
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The list of former government officials who are finding homes in private industry continues to grow.Daniel T. Kingsley, former associate administrator for operations at the Small Business Administration, has been named executive vice president and general manager of the new Washington office of Deaver & Hannaford, Inc., a public relations firm based in Los Angeles.Former general counsel of the Department of the Army Charles D. Ablard has joined the Washington office of the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 23, 1977
Susan Weiss Weds Joseph Manes |
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The marriage of Susan Rachel Weiss to Joseph Manes took place Friday, January 7 in Washington, D.C. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Weiss of Dacca, Bangladesh, where her father is Chief of the World Bank Resident Mission. Mrs. Manes is assistant director of the Washington office of the National Association for Retarded Citizens. Mr. Manes is the son of Mrs. Esther Manes of Miami Beach, Fla. and the late Mr. Aaron Manes. He is on the staff of the U.S. House of...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 21, 1977
Treasury Calls Global Lending System Safe |
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The Treasury's top official on international economic affairs said yesterday that "a significant number" of countries already have reached, or are approaching, the limits of their ability to borrow new funds.But Anthony Solomon, under secretary for monetary affairs, said that "the system as a whole is not" in any danger in the sense that lenders are overextended or that many countries have not borrowed beyond their capacity to...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 6, 1977
Bruen - Roselle |
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Mr. and Mrs. John Bruen of Boothbay Harbor, Me., formerly of Silver Spring, announce the engagement of their daughter, Nancy Kathleen to Michael A. Roselle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil E. Roselle of Oklahoma City, Okla. Miss Bruen, presently with the World Bank in this city, attended Carlow College (Pa.) and the American University. Mr. Roselle is attending Catholic University where he will continue graduate Studies. A May wedding is planned. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 6, 1977
Arab Patience Wearing Thin on Anniversary of 6-Day War |
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This weekend marks the 10th anniversary of the brief but spectacular war in which Israel routed the armed forces of three neighboring Arab states and seized parts of their territory. It is not an occasion for celebration in the Arab world.The war was followed by a decade of almost continual crisis, upheaval and violence - Black September, the war of attrition, the Munich Olympic massacre, the death of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, the 1973 war and oil embargo, shuttle diplomacy,...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 23, 1977
John D. Miller, British Journalist |
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John Duncan Miller, 75, former Washington correspondent for The Times of London and the Economist, died Saturday in England, while visting friends in Sussex.Mr. Miller was correspondent here for the two publications from 1947 to 1954, and was known to friends as a highly knowledgeable observer of the United States, who was quick to defend it against critics.From 1955 to 1968 he was special representative in Europe of the World Bank, and subsequently he was European Representative of...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 17, 1977
International Bank to Sell Its Shares of Financial General |
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International Bank of Washington, a diversified financial services company, has found purchasers for its significant investment in Financial General Bank Shares Inc., of Washington, one of the country's largest bank holding companies.IB chairman George Olmsted, who played a major role in building both companies during the post-World War II era, said a group of private investors offered to buy the stock, subject to approval by regulatory agencies, including the Federal Reserve...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 8, 1977
Dr. Joseph S. Gould, Economic Adviser |
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Dr. Joseph S. Gould, 78, an economic adviser for several federal agencies and foreign governments, died at the University of Pennsylavania Hospital Thursday following a heart attack.He lived in Newark, Del., at the time of his death.Since 1933, Dr. Gould had been an economic adviser for such organizations as the Foreign Economic Administration, the World Bank, and the Department of State. It later years he became an economic adviser to various Southeast Asian governments, such as... |
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