Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parallel claim was made by Robert Bloom, now Deputy Comptroller of the Currency and a career bureaucrat who was acting comptroller when Lance's nomination was approved by the Senate. Appearing before a House banking subcommittee, Bloom fielded a barrage of questions about why he had not alerted Congress to Lance's banking practices...
...Bloom's lame defense: he had assumed that whatever he knew about Lance's banking background was also known to Carter staffers who were handling Lance's nomination and supposed they had passed such information to the Ribicoff committee. Yet Bloom had, in fact, warmly endorsed Lance in a letter to that committee and in the classified FBI report. He noted only briefly that the comptroller's office had found some problems at the Calhoun bank?a reference Bloom claimed should have been taken as a "red flag." He certainly did; he kept documents related to those problems locked...
...Bloom also said that at Lance's request, he had not even told the FBI that the comptroller had worked out a cease-and-desist agreement with the Calhoun bank in December 1975. Lance had told him this might needlessly hurt the bank's business. Bloom's action was not without basis, since the comptroller's office cannot legally reveal the existence of such enforcement agreements without approval of the affected bank. The agreement required the end of all overdrafts to Lance and his family, ordered the bank to upgrade its loose lending practices, even questioned Lance's bank salary...
...within the year was in Hollywood. Like the character he portrayed in Woody Allen's film The Front, Mostel was blacklisted during the McCarthy years. He made a triumphant return to the entertainment world, however, in the 1958 Broadway production of Ulysses in Nighttown, playing Leopold Bloom. In his varied roles onstage and in film-from the hapless movie entrepreneur in The Producers to the man turned beast in Ionesco's The Rhinoceros-Mostel was the master of paradoxes: a graceful fat man and a wise buffoon...
Last year the racquetwomen enjoyed a successful fall but suffered once the flowers were in bloom. After sporting a 7-2 mark for September and October, Wynn point out that Radcliffe "couldn't get things together in the spring, and we wound up losing some close matches" for a 3-5 spring slate...