Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While he is helping out local candidates, the President also expects to do himself some good by polishing his image as a campaigner. He is anxious to prove that, despite a general feeling of neutrality toward him, he can still draw big crowds and pull in votes...
Style Without Spark. The Reids could not bankroll the losses indefinite ly, and in 1957 they asked Millionaire Diplomat-Sportsman John Hay Whitney for a loan. Anxious to support Republicanism's leading moderate voice, Whitney chipped in $1,200,000, took a stock option, finally decided to convert the loan to a controlling interest and see what he and his Wall Street troops could do. Naturally, they began with an economy drive; another layer of the Trib's staff was peeled off. Whitney did bring back Coach Woodward, but for editor he chose a small-town boy from...
...more Beanes had an interest in the company, the title of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane became Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. This honored Winthrop H. Smith, who had risen from office boy to operating manager. Three years later, in 1959, the firm made an even more significant switch. Anxious to keep its capital stable even if partners died or retired, Merrill Lynch incorporated itself, with McCarthy as president. One of the key stockholders (690 in all) was James E. Thomson, who had been hired in 1924 as a Wall Street runner by Merrill himself...
...civilian government in any way representative of the people would be anxious to achieve peace. The trouble with the present government is that it doesn't want peace. It's willing to fight to the last American...
...more than 20 people here this summer," Mayer said, "and nearly all of them have jobs--which means they are not too anxious to rehearse all afternoon and perform at night...