Word: moneymen
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...money team has its weaknesses, of course, but it is versatile and well balanced. Johnson will rely on Joe Fowler and Jack Connor to sell his policies to the nation's businessmen, Bill Martin and Fred Deming to deal with the international moneymen, and Ackley to pick the brains of the nation's economists. In the coming skirmishes over money policy, these few men are destined to wield more and more power...
Genuine Scare. A few weeks ago, De Gaulle instructed Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing to strike the U.S. on its soft, golden underbelly. Giscard undertook the task with some pleasure: he was still smarting from his rebuff by U.S. and British moneymen at last fall's meeting of the International Monetary Fund in Tokyo, where he tried to get the IMF to adopt a new international currency based on gold that would favor the French. During last month's British money crisis he also got a genuine scare that both the pound and the dollar might...
Buff can also swing a benefit. To Hollywood stars and moneymen, it seemed presumptuous to ask $250 a ticket just to go to the movies, but they paid it for Buff's benefit premiere of Cleopatra...
Eager to impress, the Japanese plied the bankers with No plays, Koto recitals, Bunraku puppet shows, trips to the countryside, geisha parties and tea with Emperor Hirohito. They even introduced a new cigarette called IMF. Between the crowded plenums and the warm sake sessions, the international moneymen performed some important business-and witnessed a struggle for control of the world's monetary leadership...
...Charles de Gaulle hopes to gain more power for France in world monetary circles. Many U.S. financial leaders believe that France wants to transfer some of the IMF's money and credit powers to the Bank for International Settlements, a clubby little band of French and other Continental moneymen...