Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kinds of politicians are coming out of the woodwork to look over their chances. Business and labor leaders are scouting the field for candidates to represent their interests. One prominent businessman said two weeks ago he would like to see another "benevolent dictator" keeping Chicago stable. Chances of a repeat performance of the Daley act are very slim, but here are the politicians interested in running for mayor--the first step towards filling those big shoes...
...coast-to-coast outcry over the fact that Bell and two other top-level Jimmy Carter appointees belong to Atlanta's Piedmont Driving Club, which bars membership to blacks and Jews (the other appointees: Atlanta Banker Bert Lance, Carter's proposed budget director, and Houston Businessman Charles Duncan Jr., a former Atlanta resident who was nominated as Deputy Secretary of Defense). Bell and Lance have promised to resign, but at week's end Duncan had not yet decided what...
...bespectacled fellow who came out of an apartment building on a crowded Madrid street looked like any businessman caught in the pre-Christmas rush. Then police agents swarmed in and arrested him. Their captive, wearing a gray wig, turned out to be Santiago Carrillo, 62, the exiled head of the still outlawed Spanish Communist Party. Seized with him were seven other party executives who had been meeting in the apartment hideaway...
...Democrat who often talks and thinks like a Republican. The former Navy officer and nuclear engineer is an efficiency expert who values long-range planning and prides himself on his managerial ability ("I like to run things"). He also considers himself to be a fiscal conservative, a businessman who has had to meet a payroll,* and he pledges to produce a balanced budget by the end of his first term...
...blacks or Jews as members. Bell announced that he would quit the clubs only after Carter had made it clear that he hoped Bell would do so. (Budget Director-designate Bert Lance and Charles Kirbo, Carter's closest political adviser, are also members of the Piedmont Club; Houston Businessman Charles W. Duncan Jr., tapped as Deputy Defense Secretary, is a member of Piedmont, as well as two similarly discriminatory clubs in Houston...