Word: banker
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Forcing a student to get a loan in his home town could also cause problems, Brademas noted. He cited the case of a Negro who would have to approach a banker in the South. "He would be lucky if he was able to walk in the front door," he said...
...first Premier in 1959, Debré had been totally committed to keeping Algeria French; his main task turned out to be implementing De Gaulle's policy for Algerian independence. De Gaulle rewarded Debré in the arbitrary manner of princes, dumping him in 1962 for suave, casual Banker-about-Town Georges Pompidou. "To be, to have been," said Debré in farewell, "the first collaborator of General de Gaulle is a title without equal...
...chairman of Continental Can Co. three years ago. The two leading senior partners besides Lehman and Clay: Monroe Gutman, 80, a professorial market analyst who runs much of Lehman's investment portfolio, and Paul Mazur, 73, who gave the firm its reputation as the front-running U.S. investment banker for the retailing industry with such clients as Macy's, Gimbels, the May Co. and Federated Department Stores...
...pouch that was used for carrying estimates of official funds and receipts. The importation was surprisingly recent. A formal budget was introduced only 45 years ago by Warren Harding, a man with an eye for figures. He set up a Budget Bureau and named as its first director Chicago Banker Charles Gates Dawes, a frugal fellow who came to deplore "the dirty demagogues of both parties who get the report and besmear and befog it in the minds of the public." Dawes (who became Coolidge's Vice President) had ingenious ways of calling free-spending military officers onto...
Died. Lucius Beebe, 63, fulltime dandy, a Boston banker's son who once wrote that "the trivia of life may be the solution for all the ills of a fretful and feverish world," remained wedded only to elegance, which he took to be his taste in dress (top hat and morning suit), food (champagne and pate), railroads (which he glorified in books and in his private Pullman), and cafe society, whose doings he reported, first for the New York Herald Tribune and later for the San Francisco Chronicle; of a heart attack; in San Mateo, Calif...