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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been so durable. During four decades as a rabble-rouser, he has made a career and a fortune out of preaching that only the far right is right - and that just about everything else is wrong. A onetime tub thumper for Huey Long, Smith says that the U.S. was meant to be "a white, Christian country," claimed in 1952 that Eisenhower was Jewish, and has called Hubert Humphrey "a creature of Jewish subsidy." Though his appeal today is only to a lunatic fringe, he still makes a handsome living from virulent pamphleteering and donations to his rabid, California-based Christian...
Along with the Bank of England's action, the government, in another step to take money out of circulation, ordered commercial banks to double the special deposits or reserves they must hold with the Bank of England. This meant that another $280 million would go into reserve; the move, along with the higher bank rate, had an almost instantaneous effect on the British economy. Bankers hiked interest rates on business loans to as much as 8%, a figure to frighten away many a businessman looking for money. A sharp drop is anticipated in installment buying. Homeowners, whose mortgage rates...
...Conseil de L'Ordre Na tional des Médecins was showing signs of bending to popular pressure. Though the Conseil had first threatened to block the whole operation, it now seems willing to give the SOS doctors official sanction as a registered group. To pleased Parisians, that meant that emergency night medical aid would remain just a phone call away...
...seamen's strike, the government reported, had cost Britain $137 million in gold and dollar reserves during June alone. That meant a four-month drop in reserves of $372 million, forcing London to call on a $750 million line of credit it has with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
...Arthur Friedman and Jeff Tambor for particular praise. Wright shows us a King Henry who at first seems curiously light but whose capacity for working his will is slowly and impressively revealed to us. Friedman makes of the Spanish ambassador the supple but less than subtle diplomat he is meant to be while Tambor gives us a Thomas Cromwell of vulpine cunning and cruelty...