Word: moneymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rising from bank examiner to Saxon's first deputy. In naming Camp, Johnson followed his recent tendency to select noncontroversial careerists to head regulatory agencies. The appointment was hailed unanimously by bankers, Congressmen, officials of other Government agencies and Jimmy Saxon. Reported the American Banker, daily bible of moneymen: "Almost everyone who has been associated with Mr. Camp considers him an affable, easy-to-get-along-with individual who knows the ins and outs of the business...
...symptoms were partly psychological, partly fiscal-and wholly welcome. Among moneymen, panicky talk of a threatening crisis in the financial markets had disappeared as bond prices improved and business reacted to high-interest rates by postponing some borrowing. The length of the work week, new hiring by industry, business inventories and industrial production all showed a downtrend. Though the nation's factories hummed at 93% of capacity, that rate was no higher than it had been at the start of the year. Lagging demand for steel, the economy's most basic ingredient, last week prompted giant U.S. Steel...
...most important gathering of the world's moneymen is the annual meeting of the directors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Lately the U.S. has found it necessary at these meetings to promise to keep the dollar as good as gold...
American Aid. The Ivory Coast is solidly tied into France's African sphere of influence. Still, Houphouet-Boigny decided early this year on a greater display of self-sufficiency. Replacing Sailer as the Ivory Coast's top moneymen are two Africans. Mohamed Diawara, 35, a University of Paris mathematics graduate, is in charge of le Plan. And presiding as Minister of Finance and Economics is Konan Bédié, 32, a Baoule tribesman with an economics degree from France's University of Poitiers...
...similar picture about village life in Samoa. Photographically speaking, Moana was the most beautiful movie made until that time-but beauty cut no ice with Paramount. Chopped in half, the film was billboarded as THE LOVE-LIFE OF A SOUTH SEA SIREN. For the next seven years the moneymen hid when they saw Flaherty coming...