Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon thought these men a dangerous cabal of liberals and unleashed Spiro Agnew on them with accusations that are still widely believed. Actually, the literary pontiffs of Washington come in carefully calibrated ideologies these days and are so marketed. For example, the giant Gannett chain allows the editors of its 73 papers to pick their own political columnists and urges them to choose a broad spectrum...
...Bert Lance ever needs another loan, he might consider asking William Safire. The Nixon-Agnew speechwriter-turned-columnist surely has the money, having made about $1 million from his bestselling Washington novel, Full Disclosure (TIME, July 4). He also has a personal admiration for Lance. "A likable man," says Safire, "and one of the very few in the Carter Administration to return my phone calls...
Safire less frequently bashes Republicans, but he has publicly disowned Spiro Agnew for his anti-Semitism and criticized Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger for encouraging rebellion among Iraq's Kurds and then refusing to aid them. A slick stylist with a sweet tooth for bon mots, Safire resisted obvious puns on the Kurds but drops groaners like "Zbig Government," and "Yamani or ya life...
...prosecution grew out of the same federal effort to clean up Maryland politics that drove Spiro Agnew, Mandel's predecessor as Governor, from the vice presidency. A total of seven Maryland officials have been convicted in federal prosecutions since 1973. In early August, former Congressman Edward A. Garmatz was indicted for bribe taking; Mandel's trial, ironically enough, was held in downtown Baltimore's new Edward A. Garmatz Federal Court Building...
...commission agents who handle customers' orders, has dropped by more than 13% in the past six years. The merger wave is still rolling: Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc., the Rolls Royce of the industry, has an agreement in principle to merge with the small San Francisco firm of Shuman, Agnew & Co. Inc. in order to get salesmen who know how to deal with small investors. Now that common stocks are no longer a favored investment vehicle, brokerage firms are being forced to offer a variety of investment services, from handling tax-free bond funds to trading in commodities...