Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, Rubinstein bought the Fifth Avenue mansion of the late banker, Jules Bache, gave immense parties and hobnobbed with celebrities in Manhattan's restaurants and nightclubs (at least one club-El Morocco-had better sense than a lot of politicians and businessmen: it banished him "for eternity"). He conducted his business for a while from an elaborate suite of offices on Wall Street, with sliding walls and unnumbered beautiful secretaries. He also believed in numerology and developed an undisguised admiration for Napoleon; he loved to dress up as the Corsican at masquerades, kept a one-foot statuette of Napoleon...
Mikoyan had more contacts with foreign civilians than any other Soviet leader (he visited the U.S. in 1936, returned with enthusiasm for frozen foods. Coca-Cola and Eskimo Pies), and was popular with British businessmen, who refer to him as "Mikky." He junketed with Khrushchev and Bulganin to Red China last September, but Aneurin Bevan, who met him in Moscow, noted that his influence seemed to be waning. His ministry was criticized for boosting the sales of vodka while the party was carrying on an anti-alcohol campaign. Recently his trade representative in Georgia was tried for "speculation and cheating...
...billion. Clearly something was holding it up. The U.S., said the President, had followed "policies that inspired widespread confidence on the part of people." And, just as the President hoped they would a year ago, the people took it from there: "Consumers maintained a high rate of spending, businessmen kept capital expenditures at a high rate, builders stepped up their activities, trade unions conducted their affairs with a sense of responsibility, farmers recognized the dangers of piling up ever larger surpluses, private lenders made ample supplies of credit available on liberal terms, states and localities carried out large construction programs...
...Businessmen mobilized a fleet of Cadillacs and Montgomery's only Rolls-Royce for his campaign. Once scornful of rich "got-rocks," Big Jim now has plenty of rocks himself (slices of an insurance agency and a battery business). He believes in the maxim: "Make no small plans." Big Jim has big plans for Alabama and for himself. As a sample, he had a special $32,000 hardwood dance floor installed in the Alabama Cattle Coliseum for his inaugural ball. Lazily, he waved to the crowd, called out his campaign catch phrase: "Hitch up them mules...
...discuss their plans and plots over glasses of pastis. Their earliest targets were Moors picked off in dark alleys, but in time they moved on to bigger game, like the prominent Moroccan Lawyer Omar Slaoui, who was shot last August by two Frenchmen posing as police. Small Moroccan businessmen are frequent targets, and so are native school teachers. Frenchmen suspected of favoring the Moroccans by advocating peaceful compromise are also singled out for quick punishment. "Pig, you've sold out to the rats; you will be a feast for the worms," ran one threatening letter to a government official...