Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aristocrat turned Socialist, Federico Pinedo, Finance Minister in the new Argentine Cabinet, combines progressive economic views with smart financial moves. When he was Finance Minister once before (1933), Pinedo created the Central Bank and the present Foreign Exchange Control, topped off these with a brilliant maneuver: he alchemized a British loan from credit figures on the books of British banks into actual gold metal, shipped the metal to Argentina, turned it into pesos and marked up a profit of millions of pesos in the national treasury...
...Buenos Aires. Mr. Pierson's bank last week received $500,000,000 additional lending capital when President Roosevelt signed a bill designed to enable South American countries to build up their own industries, including armaments for hemisphere defense. When it's raining dollars, any banker, even an aristocrat like Pinedo, instinctively will turn his umbrella upside down...
Last week President Roosevelt wrote a letter regretting that Dr. Hart had accepted an offer. This one was from Boston's big, swank Trinity Church (salary: $15,000; communicants: 2,400), to be vacated this fall by another Southern aristocrat, Rev. Arthur Lee ("Little Tui") Kinsolving, who leaves for modest little Trinity Church at Princeton, N. J. Boston should give Rector Hart another chance to refuse a bishopric, if he wishes to. Before "Tui" Kinsolving (who did not stay long enough), Trinity's three rectors each became a bishop...
...this was not the universal sentiment of the West. In Polish Profile, Princess Paul Sapieha (Virgilia Peterson Ross) documents the perplexity. A young woman from Manhattan who married a Polish aristocrat, Princess Sapieha (pronounced Sa-pee-ayz-ha) lived for six years in Poland and escaped last September under the wings of German bombers. She has written her book for her two children to inform them of the society into which they were born and which has now been ruined. It is an honest and unobtrusively well-written story, full of unaccented human truth. The wildness and gloom...
...personal pelf, 2) the Republican Party as the guarantor of the protective tariff, which in turn guaranteed more G. O. P. votes and more pillage. Dark, withered, saturnine, cautious. Matt Quay was the opposite in every way but ruthlessness to Boies Penrose, the arrogant, 6 ft. 4 in. aristocrat who was in turn Quay's protegé, partner, successor...