Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hartmann and John O. Marsh and Press Secretary Ron Nessen, finally moved back to the Red Room for brandy, cigars and more conversation. For Ford, the evening was a relaxing opportunity to reflect on the broader historical and philosophical contexts of his decisions and, in a way, a remedial crash course in presidential perspectives...
Sometimes she retreats to a sparse stone house north of Vancouver to paint, write and roam naked on the surrounding 40 acres with Art. It is not a relationship an earthling can easily crash, and Joni concedes that she will probably never marry. "My family consists of pieces of work that go out in the world," she smiles. "Instead of hanging around for 19 years they leave the nest early...
...Harvard-educated, Depression-era Stock Exchange president and embezzler; in Far Hills, N.J. By wandering the floor of the exchange on "Black Thursday," Oct. 24, 1929, as the representative of a banking consortium, and bidding high on blue chip stocks, Whitney earned credit for temporarily stemming the 1929 crash. Elected president of the New York Stock Exchange, he lived regally, took to embezzling, and was convicted and sent to Sing Sing in 1938 in the scandal of the decade...
...candidates for cultural immortality, more or less lovingly revived in four colors from what used to be called the funny papers. In Volume I of Flash Gordon, that Yaleman for all seasons progresses from his crash landing on the planet Mongo with delicious but dumb Dale Arden and brilliant...
...fall of individuals like Whitney can serve only one purpose: to remind people, in the middle of a more drawn out but no less extensive stock market crash than that of 1929, of the dangers and iniquities of a system in which economic control lies in the hands of a hereditary oligarchy, a system whose basic criminality is never very far from the surface...