Word: deweyitis
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Stonehenge, Highway 7 outside Ridgefield, Conn. Swiss Chef Albert Stockli buys his fresh vegetables from such local farmers as Thomas E. Dewey and Lowell Thomas. Elegant Continental dining in a rambling house set by a swan-filled pond...
Moreover, warned Federal Reserve Board Governor J. Dewey Daane, interest rates are bound to go still higher unless some action is taken by the Administration. Reason: the economy shows every indication of overheating. Buoyed by the Viet Nam war and un-slackened consumer demand, it appears headed up through the end of 1966 at the very least. The gross national product should total $739 billion this year, $12 billion more than Administration economists predicted in January. This would mean 1,000,000 more jobs than anyone anticipated, and a decline in unemployment from the current rate of 3.9% , already...
Tillinghast went from Columbia Law School to a $175-a-month job with the Manhattan law firm headed by Charles Evans Hughes Jr., son of the onetime Chief Justice. Except for 29 months as a deputy assistant Manhattan district attorney under Thomas E. Dewey, he spent the next 22 years practicing corporate law. It was through law that Tillinghast eventually became associated with TWA-and was brought into classic corporate conflict with TWA's eccentric genius, Howard Hughes...
...trying to do too much too fast. Too much private investment, too much government spending, rising consumer appetites. And all of the coun tries are looking to monetary policies alone for avoiding the inflationary im pact." So said Federal Reserve Board Member Dewey Daane last week, focusing on the fact that the U.S., among other countries, has sought to restrain its economic exuberance by making money costlier and scarcer than at any other time in the 1960s...
...American Bankers Association that he could well under stand why the President had held off on a tax hike until "he knows where we are going in Viet Nam." In a fascinating sideshow to the ABA sessions in Spain, Martin's Federal Reserve colleague, Board Member J. Dewey Daane, appeared in a Toledo ring and made four respectable passes with a scarlet and yellow cape at a "bull." Actually, the beast was a heifer, but the bankers wildly cheered the performance-not least because no one got hurt...