Word: bankers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sand cliffs, sand boats sail across the flats at 60 m.p.h., and now the latest contraptions, gyrocopters, have arrived. They are homemade, one-seater helicopters barely 8 ft. long, and the closest thing to a flying chair yet made by man. "You're all by yourself," enthuses Pomona Banker Gus Styias. "The wind whirls by your ears, and you can often change direction by simply moving your body. You're really flying by the seat of your pants...
...eligible voters in Miss Jordan's district are Negroes, she amassed 64.8% of the total vote-winning 30% to 50% of the ballots in white precincts, and losing decisively in only one. Conducting a similarly restrained campaign for a house seat in a 47% Negro district, Banker Graves compiled 50.3% of the vote, polling 25% to 40% of the total in non-Negro precincts. Since neither faces a Republican opponent in November, their primary victories-the first that Southern Negroes have yet won outright in this year's campaign for state offices-assure both candidates of election...
...excessive" 5¾% rate abroad, arguing that the company should have ignored the voluntary restraint program because it lacks the force of law. Many foreign governments and European companies have been squeezed out in the borrowing crunch or have agreed to hitherto unthinkable terms. "This," says London investment banker Siegmund Warburg, "has stirred up considerable anti-American feeling." Despite such acrimony, more foreigners each year seem happy to hold their wealth in U.S. money...
They tell the story about New York Banker Otto Kahn. It seems he was being chauffeured to work one day when he spotted a tailor's shop displaying the proud sign MAX KAHN, COUSIN OF OTTO KAHN. Enraged, the financier stopped the car, roared into the store and ordered Non-Relative Max to take the sign down forthwith. "Yes, sir," said Max timidly. Next day, Kahn drove by again and was greeted with...
...plot that roils around him is mostly post-Victorian gimcrackery, carried out in a pure period style that offers everything from mad little chases in vintage jalopies to the acrobatics of human flies, from reunions of long-lost sons and ruined fathers to the machinations of a rascally banker whose ill-gotten capital gains keep Judex awake nights. So does the banker's daughter (Edith Scob), a lovely wisp of a heroine. All crumpled organdy and helplessness yet clearly indestructible, she is drugged, chloroformed, kidnaped, nearly impaled on a hatpin, and at one point must be pulled...