Word: barres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, a Buffalo industrialist and collector who, in 1929, at the request of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and two other Manhattan patronesses of art, began organizing a museum for contemporary painting and design, signed on Director Alfred H. Barr and a cadre of blue-chip trustees, in ten years established the museum as the world's foremost devoted to modern art; of a heart attack; in Old Westbury...
Until this year, the stuffy FDIC would probably never have admitted to such ownership. But the atmosphere has changed under new Chairman Joseph W. Barr, 46, a Harvard-trained economist and former Indiana Congressman who was Lyndon Johnson's first executive appointment. "Banking is a flesh-and-blood business," says curly-haired Joe Barr, "and there's no sense pretending it's not." Whatever part the flesh may have played in the failure of the $3.8 million Marlin bank, Barr is trying to get back some of the blood; the FDIC has filed a $1.2 million civil...
...Barr is less disturbed by his odd properties than by the fact that the Marlin bank failure illustrates what may be a trend. Most banks over the years since the Depression have gone under either because officers embezzled funds or showed poor judgment in making loans. But the four banks that have failed in the past 16 months had each been acquired by new management just before failure. Barr fears that unprincipled operators may be taking over small banks, paying themselves inflated salaries to recover acquisition costs, and then selling risky loan paper to their own banks. Barr aims...
...Franklin and Marshall, Pereira will be wrestling at 177, ten pounds above the weight he wrestled in the earlier tournament. The heavier weight class is a tough one--Navy's Gerry Franzen and Pitt's Ken Barr top a packed field...
Lawyer James Barr Ames of the Citizens' Advisory Committee summed up the situation: "The real story is people rising up to preserve a little green space against the depredation of the automobile. Some state agencies are under so much pressure to develop highways that they find it difficult to remember the parks. We hope this will stiffen them into resisting the automobile, and preserving the amenities...