Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Liberal member of Parliament from Mount Royal in Montreal. Three years later, after serving as Canada's Justice Minister and Attorney-General, he succeeded the late Lester ("Mike") Pearson as Prime Minister. During Trudeau's first election campaign, young girls?including his future wife?flung themselves at him. Businessmen asked for his autograph. Crowds gathered wherever he went. Said Trudeau in those palmy days: "However Canadians are classified, the needs of each must be recognized...
...long-suffering Washington (D.C.) Star in 1974 from the families that had owned the afternoon paper for most of its 125 years, he had no illusions about what lay ahead. "Financially, the Star was on the ropes, and its morale was low," the Texas banker recalls. "Readers and businessmen viewed the Star with the sad concern one feels for a dying friend...
...often spoken of as the "Negro-cussin' Vardaman" and the "Great White Chief," dressed himself completely in white--white suit, white shit, white tie, white hat and white shoes, symbolical of white supremacy, as well as set himself up as the champion of the farmer against predatory bankers and businessmen whom he saw as locusts devouring the farmer. Finch, however, won over 80 per cent of the black vote in his gubernatorial race. Finch is a color-blind Vardaman, a politician who has managed to unite the poor black and the poor white Mississippians instead of pitting them against...
...preacher in Carter spoke up for economic and social equity at every budget turn. To tax business lunches and first-class air travel was not worth the political battle and probable defeat, Carter was advised. So what, he answered. It is not right that businessmen can deduct their martinis if workmen cannot deduct their sandwiches. And, said Carter, he had campaigned all over the country for two years riding in tourist seats, and he found room in which to do his work...
Four other French businessmen have been seized and released (for ransoms as high as $3.2 million) in the past three years. But Empain is the most important yet, and his kidnaping occurred at a time when such crimes have become regular incidents elsewhere, especially in Italy. Justice Minister Alain Peyrefitte appealed for Empain's return, citing the "hundreds of kidnapings" in Italy and their effect on that country. Said he: "We don't want a reign of violence and anarchy" in France. Other wealthy Frenchmen noted grimly that Empain habitually went about without bodyguards, something no Italian...