Word: connors
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State of Flux. The job, as previous Secretary John Connor said after resigning his post, is "in a state of flux." One reason why Connor quit after two frustrating years was the steady diminution of Commerce's influence over na tional economic policy, which now is substantively set by the big quadriad of the Administration's Treasury Secretary, Budget Director, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and the head of the Council of Economic Advisers. Thus the Commerce Department's official dominion is slight-and it became even slighter when Johnson last fall created an autonomous Department...
...very next day, to be sure, he seemed to take a narrower view. The occasion-the posthumous award of a Medal of Honor to Marine Sergeant Peter Connor, who saved his comrades by hugging a grenade to his body-was hardly an appropriate one for a speech aimed at the Administration's critics, but Johnson seized it nonetheless. "Thousands of miles away from the battlefield on which he fell, his countrymen debate the course of the war he fought in," said the President. "The debate will go on, and it will have its price. It is a price...
Last week former Commerce Secretary John Connor, now president of Allied Chemical Corp., advised President Johnson to drop his proposal for a 6% income-tax surcharge later this year-a move strongly backed by many other businessmen, who argue that the increase would stifle business recovery. With or without higher taxes, Socony Mobil Oil Chairman Albert Nickerson predicts nothing more than "very moderate" economic gains this year, partly because "private industry is sluggish, but all levels of Government spending...
AMBROSE BIERCE: A BIOGRAPHY by Richard O'Connor. 333 pages. Little, Brown...
...sense, has Bierce's considerable literary reputation. No one reads him any more. His name rings louder than his works, which fill twelve volumes. In his brisk but superficial new biography Richard O'Connor (Jack London, Bret Harte) does not unwrap the mystery of Bierce's disappearance. But the book does constitute one more testament of faith in the man whose bitter messages to mankind have faded scarcely at all since he set them down...