Word: garfields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Undoubtedly the most successful supermarketeer in Europe is Toronto-born Willard Garfield Weston, 64, a philanthropic, publicity-shy millionaire who controls the U.S.'s National Tea Co. and Britain's huge Allied Bakeries. In the last five years, Weston has built a chain of 236 supermarkets in Britain, is adding to it at the rate of three new stores a week, and intends soon to absorb two grocery chains in France...
Bargain Day. Surveying the debacle from the inner offices of brokerage houses, banks and mutual funds, the men who make markets decided that many stocks had touched bottom and now was the time to shop for blue-chip bargains. Monday night, Boston Investment Counselor Garfield Drew, the champion of the Odd Lots Theory (TIME, March 31, 1961), rushed out 4,500 telegrams urging purchases of such hard-hit issues as Polaroid, Xerox and American Machine & Foundry. On Wall Street, mighty Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith sent out a "Buy Flash"; so did Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, E. F. Hutton, Francis...
...Arthur Garfield Dove owed his given names to the Republican presidential ticket* of 1880, the year he was born in Upstate New York. But he owed nothing to their plodding example, for Dove was a trail blazer. Long before fashions changed. Dove pointed-and painted-toward abstract expressionism. After a start as a successful magazine illustrator, he turned to illustrating inner vision rather than outer void. Wrote Humorist Bert L. Taylor of Dove...
...James Garfield, who won the election only to be mortally wounded 120 days after his inauguration, and Chester Arthur, who as Vice President succeeded Garfield...
Baxter had another problem in the fondness of little (now 1,200 men) Williams for small classes and intimate seminars. That tradition made the college the subject of one of U.S. education's most endlessly quoted remarks. Speaking about Williams President Mark Hopkins, U.S. President James A. Garfield, Williams '56 (who was assassinated on his way to a Williams commencement), supposedly said that "the ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.'' In a day of academic mass production, the notion was bound to cost Williams plenty...