Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest reasons behind the new pressure for financial reform are the highly publicized troubles that banks are having with bad loans (TIME, Jan. 26) and the failures that those troubles have sometimes caused. Latest example: the $400 million-deposit Hamilton National Bank of Chattanooga fell victim last month to uncollectible real estate loans and its parent holding company, which once owned 17 banks with assets of $1.1 billion, followed it into bankruptcy a few days later. Rightly or wrongly, many Congressmen believe that closer regulation would have kept the banks from overextending themselves. So the creation of a new Federal...
...much an interpretive autobiography as the most comprehensive lab report in the history of science. In exhaustive--and exhausting--detail, we follow Skinner through a curious childhood and a lonely, almost morose, adolescence in a drab Pennsylvania town. Skinner recounts Kollege Kid pranks and personality molding teachers at Hamilton College, a year as a struggling writer, and a bohemian period in Greenwich Village...
...most important issue may be Carter's character and personality. For all his emphasis on establishing an "intimate" relationship with the voters, he shields a part of himself from the public. "Jimmy is not easy to get close to," confides his campaign manager, Hamilton Jordan. "He doesn't have enough time in his life to let people get close. He doesn't really understand the personal element in politics, though nobody is better at campaigning...
...HAMILTON JORDAN, 30, National Campaign Director. A plump native of Albany, Ga., Jordan wears denim jackets and open-necked shirts. He affects a good-ol'-boy manner but is a coolly professional political operative. In 1966, he was youth coordinator of Carter's first, unsuccessful campaign for Governor, then managed his winning gubernatorial drive in 1970 and became his executive secretary. Jordan describes himself as a late-blooming progressive. A cousin founded Koinonia (Greek for fellowship or communion), a biracial farm in southwestern Georgia that deeply offended Ku Klux Klan members and other white racists in the 1940s...
...later stage in the questioning, when Hamilton and others bore down on him about a memo he issued to John Mitchell about grants and special contract agreements for black groups that would in return support the Nixon campaign, exactly where the memo came from again slipped Malek's mind. He said...