Word: economist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expression of a national feeling." Outside the House of Commons, only a few voices were raised to dispute that national feeling. Snapped the Daily Express: "Whatever gains may have been made in moving closer towards China have been more than compensated by damage to friendship with America." The Economist noted "a most dangerous atmosphere of complacency." Next evening, ignoring such rare voices in their new forest of appeasement, Eden and Sir Winston Churchill boarded a Stratocruiser chartered from BOAC. They took off into stiff head winds, blowing hard from the direction of Washington...
...Pool. By custom, the search for a new Premier to replace the downfallen Joseph Laniel began with the man who had been most vigorous in opposition. That took President Coty straight to Mendès-France, a confident, energetic lawyer and economist...
...said he, "it . . . depends on you to a large extent whether in the uncertain sky of Lake Geneva a healthy wind will blow away the clouds ..." Then from the Radical Socialist benches came the voice of ambitious Economist Pierre Mendès-France, most outspoken advocate of the theory that France is "militarily overextended" and must get out of Indo-China. "We are not Americans," said he. "We cannot see the world with their eyes ... It is possible to end the disorder immediately, but it is not this government that can do it." Just Short of a Year...
Prompt Response. Adviser Burns was there to answer recent charges by Harvard's Economist Sumner Slichter that the Administration had done too little to combat recession. On the contrary, said Burns, it had done a great deal, notably in loosening credit and cutting taxes. The Federal Reserve Board's first credit-easing step, in May 1953, "was the promptest response to an economic decline ever taken by a central bank in any country...
Workout in the Gym. Last year, with his father's backing, he launched the tabloid, twelve-page L'Express, hoped to "find a formula which would be a sort of cross between TIME and the [London] Economist. Servan-Schreiber has not hit that formula yet, but he has some other working formulas of his own. Up every day at 4 a.m., he works for about four hours before leaving for his office. Promptly at 7 every evening, Health Enthusiast Servan-Schreiber ("We French eat too much and exercise too little") and his ten-man staff cross the Champs...