Word: brokering
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Shortly after her divorce, Nina Vidal married Hugh D. Auchincloss, a wealthy broker and the squire of Merrywood, a handsome Virginia estate. Despite the trauma that this union occasioned, it gave Vidal two tenuous family connections that were to affect his career: Auchincloss's mother was Emma Brewster Jennings, a descendant of Aaron Burr; and, after he and Vidal's mother were divorced, Auchincloss married Mrs. Janet Bouvier, the mother of the future Jacqueline Kennedy...
...bear the bloodless mark of a collection that has had to depend for its light on a tiny ration of western sun that filters past the Institute of Politics and through the great window. Finally, there is the long and severe form of Mr. Fisher himself, the broker of futures, who is much more the stick than the carrot. For the ambitious student who happens to wander this way, the whole scene suggests, with a Protestant New England reserve, that, No, there is no earthly reward, or at least, To get a good job, you must work hard while...
Eddie Crane, poor son of a Cambridge cop, Harvard magna cum laude, city councilor for almost 30 years, was a power broker for as long as most Cambridge political experts can recall...
...prayed every night for the Governor. Declared Wallace: "I love everybody, black or white. My fight was with the Government, but nobody understood that." Replied King: "I understand." Few people think Wallace has any chance of winning the nomination, but he could well wind up as a power broker with considerable say over the choice of the nominee and the platform...
...Thirties, Simon and the Ford Administration are concerned not with the billions of dollars of potential GNP going unrealized, but with the possibility that financing the large federal deficits this year and next will contribute to future inflation and crowd out private investment. Regrettably, this Wall Street bond-broker's per-spective ignores recent history: it was the paranoia about inflation common to Ford, Simon and Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns in 1974 which led to the excessively tightened money supply that slid the country into the 1974-75 recession...