Word: harolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great that the U.S. refused to continue to feed gold to satisfy speculators' greed. In a telephoned message to British Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins, the U.S. asked Britain to close the London gold market and shut off the flow from the Gold Pool. Prime Minister Harold Wilson hurried to Buckingham Palace for a midnight meeting with Queen Elizabeth, who declared a bank holiday in foreign-exchange trading. That shut off the Gold Pool's dealing, and money markets from Singapore to Lusaka followed suit. The Paris market alone stayed open...
...human casualty of the gold crisis in Britain was Foreign Secretary George Brown, a man with a large reputation for unpredictability. When Prime Minister Harold Wilson called the mid night conference with the Queen at Buckingham Palace at which the government decided to declare a bank holiday, he unaccountably failed to summon Brown, even though the issue's foreign policy implications were obvious. In fact, Brown, who was listening to a debate in Commons at the time, first learned of the meeting when a fellow Labor M.P. asked him what was going on. Enraged by being left out, Brown...
...Republican President next year, '72 looks even dimmer. The man who beats Johnson--call him President Nixon--would likely remain in office for eight years, sustained by a period of post-war reaction and by the dictates of political fashion. By '76 Kennedy could be nearly as anachronistic as Harold Stassen in the current campaign...
...authority and fearful of casting itself in the role of judicial murderer, had refrained from carrying out the sentences. Then, two weeks ago, Rhodesia's high court ruled that the noose could be used, since the Smith regime was a de facto government. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor government thereupon asked the Queen to intercede, but her plea was rejected by the Rhodesian high court. "Her Majesty is quite powerless in this matter," said Rhodesian Chief Justice Sir Hugh Beadle, who had hitherto been known as a "Queen's man" for arguing that Rhodesia must...
Anything Goes. Between the Donadios and the Merediths, the thriving agency business is rich with specialists who represent, in varying degrees, some combination or permutation of the two. Irving Lazar is a Hollywood agent who concentrates almost exclusively on sales to film companies. Attorney Paul Gitlin represents Harold Robbins, among others, as both lawyer and agent...