Word: banker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tory Government of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker took the final steps last week to oust the Bank of Canada's Governor James E. Coyne. After a month-long fight during which tight-money Banker Coyne criticized government fiscal policies and the government charged Coyne with voting himself an overly big pension, the Commons approved a 46-word bill firing Coyne. From the sidelines. Banker Coyne accused Diefenbaker of being an "evil genius" who, with "unbridled malice and vindictiveness." had set out to destroy him in order to install a yes man at the bank and proceed on a ruinous...
...becomes law. In Diefenbaker's view, the Senate is a relic-its appointed members are supposed to be seen but not heard. The current Senate, though, is controlled by the opposition Liberals, and they have very different ideas. Last week the Senate voted to defer its approval until Banker Coyne has a chance to tell his side of the story before a senatorial hearing...
...Order. The turning point for Chris-Craft came in early 1960 when Harsen Smith, beset by family disagreements, sold out for $40 million to NAFI Corp., a Wall Street-run venture company controlled by famed Yachtsman Cornelius Shields. 66. and his investment banker brother Paul. To replace Smith as chief executive officer, the Shieldses installed bluff, chunky President Harry Coll, 52. who had been with Chris-Craft since 1939. Even before the Shields brothers took over. Coll had sent his close friend. Sales Vice President Charles R. Burgess, 51. off to survey the company's dealer organization. "Time...
...complex." Said a Miami science teacher: "It's time for Kennedy to sort out the bad eggs from that nest of eggheads he's brought to Washington and show the world we're tough. They'll respect us for it." Said a Florida banker: "Look, every time we really lay it on the line we've stopped the Communists. If we tell them they can't push us further and show them we mean it, we'd be all right. The President has got to be a leader. Damn it, that...
...days before the Really Big Rich, and few Texans could resist that sort of an appeal. Ma won. A rawboned woman with an American Gothic jaw, she looked as hard as a banker's heart. Actually, she was a college-educated, devoutly religious, well-bred woman who was about as political as peach cobbler. She was, above all, a dutiful wife. Her first act as Governor was to sign an "amnesty" restoring Farmer Jim's right to hold public office. (It was rescinded by her successor.) Though both Fergusons were teetotalers, they opposed Prohibition. In her first term...