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Personal Life: An Anglican, he is married to tiny, dark, vivacious Dora Creditor Frost, a divorcee of Russian-Jewish descent. They live modestly in a twelve-room house in Hampstead, rent five rooms to a tenant. They have two teen-age daughters, one son by Mrs. Gaitskell's first marriage. Gaitskell has blue eyes and pale red hair, loves parties, likes to dance. "My dancing is notorious," he admits. In Parliament, he is sharp, often witty, but occasionally suffers from a tendency to lecture his colleagues like the economics professor he is. He disdains backroom political intriguing, is usually...
...When creditors came calling on Citroën to protest these extravagances, he plied them with wine, cigars and promises of better times. By 1934, better times seemed on their way, as he tooled up for the famous front-wheel-drive Citroën. But it was too late: Citroën owed too much. One day in 1934, a creditor came calling who could not be turned away with fine language and fine wines. Pierre Michelin, tycoon of Michelin Tire Co., France's largest tiremakers, who had bought up an estimated 63% of Citro...
Moreover, Johnson and his fellow Democrats owe their Senate control to a tough political creditor, Oregon's Wayne Morse. Said Johnson, of Morse's committee assignments: "I don't know what he may want, but whatever he wants, he's going to get it-if I've got it to give." If Johnson does not have it to give, he had better find it-at teast if he wants Morse to stay with the Democrats...
...tried to be a dutiful husband and father. He put his royalties into a farm, but he could not put his back and heart into it. With an eye on his hungry family and an ear to the creditor's knock, he took the odiously regarded job of exciseman, but gave it a Robin Hood touch: "I recorded every Defaulter, but at the Court, I myself begged off every poor body that was unable to pay, which seeming candour gave me so much implicit credit with the Hon. Bench that . . . they gave me ample vengeance on the rest...
...creditor nation, and most of its industries no longer need protection. Furthermore, most businessmen are well aware that a tariff is actually only a concealed subsidy to a particular industry paid for by all consumers. Since World War IPs end, the U.S. has spent $38 billion on foreign aid. In the same period, the amount of the excess of U.S. exports over imports has totaled $34 billion...