Word: financiere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Glib cynicism often greets attacks on existing society, yet the outbursts against members of groups like Hare Krishna are generally hysterical. Perhaps the contrast can be explained by the uneasiness--sometimes terror--people have felt since before the time of Socrates when faced with something they do not understand. Thus...
Ailing were WomenSports and Working Woman, two worthy attempts to further female self-awareness and success. Both claimed a circulation of 200,000, but neither came close to making money. Financier J. Jay Frankel filed a bankruptcy petition for Working Woman, which began publication 14 months ago, then promised refinancing...
In 1964 Wall Street lost its traditional role of financier to the world. An Interest Equalization Tax (I.E.T.) first proposed by President Kennedy and passed during the Johnson Administration made it prohibitively expensive for Americans to buy foreign securities and effectively forced foreigners who had been accustomed to floating bond...
Conventional histories of the late nineteenth century generally miss one man who helped bring about changes in American society far more lasting than those wrought by any politicians or businessmen. The histories tend to name men like President Grover Cleveland, Populist presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan and financier J. P...
Constructivist architecture principally survives on paper. In the inflated, crisis-ridden economy of post-World War I Europe, no financier intended to go broke building glass towers and ideal suburbs that nobody wanted to live in. And quite right too: for little in the history of architecture since the pharaohs...