Word: harolde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, enough to convince hard-driving Heath that his fast-moving campaign was paying off. By air and auto, he continued to crisscross the nation, rapping Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Laborites for rising prices, for failure to settle the Rhodesian crisis, and for waste in government. "Vote Labor and pay later," Heath warned his listeners...
...campaign drew into its final week, there were predictions that Harold Wilson and his Laborites would win by 120 seats or more in the 630-seat House of Commons. Wilson's aides were talking less ambitiously of perhaps a 50-seat majority. They feared that Labor supporters might be so mesmerized by the poll predictions that they would stay away from the polls in large numbers out of sheer apathy. If that happened, the Tories might indeed turn the tide in marginal districts and, at least, avert a Labor landslide. By any pollster's calculations, however, victory seemed...
...size ($90 million gross) to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith ($227 million) among U.S.'s brokerage firms, desks are decorated with a motto of the house: "Learn to listen." The man that Bache's 5,000 employees are expected to listen to most intently is Chairman Harold L. Bache, 71, whose granduncle founded the firm 87 years ago. Last week, after Bache President Adrian C. ("Ace") Israel, 50, suddenly resigned because of "a basic disagreement over corporate policy," Wall Streeters were saying that the real reason was that Israel had found himself forced to listen without ever being...
Good Job. Along with heading up a family-owned commodities brokerage trading in cocoa, coffee and rubber, Israel joined Bache in 1945. Last year when Bache, following the example of 138 other New York Stock Exchange members, switched from a partnership to a corporation, Israel was picked by Harold Bache to become president. Bache himself became chief executive, but Wall Street predicted that Israel would eventually move into that...
With Britain's general election only a fortnight away, the major polls last week gave Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor Party an unprecedented lead-and increased the pressure on the Conservatives to find some issue with which to turn the tide. But Tory Leader Ted Heath was having a tough time...