Word: gabriel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself of a miracle-working Yemenite rabbi whom he had heard of in nearby Akir. Barzilai went to see him and was at once impressed. Rabbi Barti held a sheet of blank paper over the kerosene stove, and slowly there appeared a message on it signed by the Angels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael. A talisman to cure Barzilai's wife would be found on the rabbi's roof, said the angel's message; it was to be smeared with chicken blood and hung around his wife's neck...
Before he could come into his kingdom, said Barti, Rich Man Barzilai must give some proof of his faith-$1,000 in cash. The money was placed under a stone in the rabbi's courtyard; it duly disappeared and was replaced by a receipt signed by Gabriel, Michael and Raphael. Barti persuaded Barzilai to burn the receipt. It would be returned on Judgment Day, he said. And so it went for four years-another $1,000 for his royal robes, a deposit of $2,500 on a gift of $5,000 "for the Lord himself," still more...
...lunched with 51 leaders of the Crusade for Freedom, spent 50 minutes with the British Labor Party's U.S.-baiting, Russian-admiring Aneurin Bevan. He rounded out the day in an economic review with Bob Anderson, Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., Economic Advisers Ray Saulnier and Gabriel Hauge...
...member banks on loans as a dramatic signal to businessmen that it has changed its policy. The increasing worry of economists is not the state of business itself but the businessman's view of business, which has turned alarmingly sour in recent months. Said White House Economic Adviser Gabriel Hauge: "Business is better than business sentiment." And for this lack of confidence the Federal Reserve has largely itself to blame...
...Pure Bunk." The most serious worry for 1958 is the Government's continuing tight-money campaign in the face of an economic slide, however slight. Speaking before the American Finance Conference in Washington last week, White House Economic Advisor Gabriel Hauge assured businessmen that the Administration is ready to cushion any downturn with "flexible policies, adapted to changing conditions." It was flatly untrue, said Hauge, that the Government was out to cause a "little recession," to keep the economy healthy. "I want to label that for what it is-pure bunk. Nor does this Administration believe that a little...