Word: burgesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gelett Burgess...
...Washington bureaucracy no man feels the need of touching the ground more than W. (for Warren) Randolph Burgess (no kin to the poet, whose limerick he likes to quote). As the Treasury's top money expert, Burgess dabbles in such weighty and occult fiscal matters as rediscount rates and refundings, deals in sums that would frighten a lesser man. As manager of the biggest peacetime financing in history, he must raise $65 billion this calendar year. Last week Congress promoted Moneyman Burgess from Deputy Secretary to the new post of Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs...
Rangy (6 ft. 4 in.) "Randy" Burgess, a Brown University graduate, has dealt in fiscal matters all his business life. He spent 18 years with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, later was elected vice chairman of the National City Bank of N.Y. and president of the American Bankers Association. He has worked with every Treasury Secretary since Andrew Mellon, in 1933 declined an offer to become Under Secretary under William Woodin because...
...year ago Banker Burgess, a fiscal conservative, was hotly criticized for quarterbacking a 30-year bond issue designed to curb inflation by soaking up long-term investment capital and stiffening interest rates. When it appeared that the medicine might be too stiff, he promptly eased up on his tight-money policies. Nevertheless, Burgess still favors debt-lengthening, has managed to boost average public bond maturities by six months and hopes to stretch them further...
...that she is his boyish ideal of a goddess and that he worships her beauty almost as much as Lord Trimingham's viscountcy. To fetch and carry for Maid Marian is heaven to Leo-especially when she asks him to carry a secret letter from her to Ted Burgess and rewards him with "an enchanting smile...