Word: arthur
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...wanted a relationship of peace, trade and cooperation with "such a great country as the United States of America." Samantha said that Andropov's reply read like "a letter from a friend," and that the Soviet leader did not seem as grim as she had imagined. Her father Arthur Smith, an English instructor at the University of Maine, was more skeptical of Andropov's motives, saying he "didn't write to her simply because he's one of her fans...
Gilmore was also ordered by circuit court judge Arthur Ahalt to pay to the university the nearly $21,000 he received in bribes...
However, both James Rowe, then assistant attorney general, and Arthur Goldberg, the former Supreme Court justice, credit McCloy as the driving force in the War Department in getting the proposal turned into an executive order. Goldberg says that McCloy opposed the idea at first, but then became one of its strongest supporters...
Hovey has unfairly fired four pro-union workers, threatened others with the loss of their benefits, and hired a union-busting law firm to extend the legal battle, according to Arthur Koustis, labor organizer for Local 592 of the United Food & Commercial Workers...
...Chemical Bank: "He has done a marvelous job. The best thing that could happen would be his reappointment." Western European businessmen and finance ministers agree. They respect Volcker for warning of the growing problem of international debt and for his tough anti-inflation stand. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, who is now serving as Ambassador to West Germany, recently visited Vice President George Bush to make a plea to keep Volcker on the job. Burns based his case on the need for respected leadership in the ongoing international financial crunch. Said another Volcker fan: "These are dicey times...