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The first postwar architect, Sir Giles Scott, resigned after three years of architectural and clerical bickering. The Coventry city council refused a building permit, arguing that the city had first to catch up in schools, homes and clinics. Minister of Works Sir David Eccles wrote the Lord Mayor: "Can we...
* Chairman of the commission is Frazar B. Wilde, chairman of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. Among the members: Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Chairman James B. Black; First Security Corp. Chairman Marriner S. Eccles; Anderson, Clayton & Co. Chairman Lamar Fleming Jr.; Under Secretary of the Treasury Henry H. Fowler; Federated...
*The others: Ethnographer Antonio de Almeida, 61, Portugal (Roman Catholic); Chemist George de Hevesy, 75, born in Hungary, now living in Sweden (Roman Catholic); Physiologist Sir John Carew Eccles, 58, Australia (Roman Catholic); Geneticist Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, 71, England (Church of England); Chemist Giordano Giacomello, 71, Italy (Roman Catholic...
To change anything in the Na-a-vy is like punching a featherbed. You punch it with your right and you punch it with your left until you are finally exhausted, and then you find the damn bed just as it was before you started punching. -F.D.R., as quoted by...
Last week's policy switch also represents a sharp about-face for William McChesney Martin, 54, the shrewd, conservative chairman of the FRB. During World War II and the early postwar years, the Fed was little more than the Treasury's valet, pegging bond prices to keep interest...