Word: financiere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Connally's sure, deep voice exudes confidence, comforting and commanding his Chicago audience like a wise smalltown sheriff. Speaking without a prepared text, he ticks off facts and figures, developing his arguments lucidly and engaging his listeners with a tone of careful sincerity. He is always controlled, raising his voice...
(8 of 10) the Administration's unsuccessful wage and price controls, a policy he now says was mistaken. Not one content to be minding only his own business, he gave Nixon advice on a broad range of issues, stepping on the toes of a few Cabinet colleagues and Nixon advisers...
Another case involving Jordan last week showed why a special prosecutor is sometimes needed. The Justice Department has impaneled a grand jury to investigate charges by a Georgia businessman that fugitive Financier Robert Vesco attempted to get Jordan and Charles Kirbo, a Carter adviser, to block his extradition from the...
He was an international financier with a personal fortune once estimated at $450 million. Nonetheless, when Michele Sindona, 59, was reported kidnaped in New York City last week, hardly any one showed signs of alarm about his safe ty, not even the federal prosecutors who had planned to try him...
Volcker's years of toil in the world of interest and exchange rates-he is currently president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank-have made him a comfortable member of the international monetary club, unlike Miller, who was little known in the world's money markets when...