Word: moneymen
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Next day, in pique, Rome's biggest moneymen went on strike against tax reforms by closing the stock exchanges. An official of the Finance Ministry explained sympathetically, "Italians cannot be made to accept the idea of sending a man to jail for failure to pay taxes...
...sided World Series was no sooner over than the hot-stove league got off to a flying start. In the front offices of baseball, the moneymen began shifting managers so fast that a man hardly had time to read the small type in his contract; a fan could spend all winter wondering what had happened to his team. Among the changes...
ADENAUER'S victory means continued West German prosperity to European moneymen. Since his reelection, Germany's blocked mark has risen 25% on Zurich's Bourse, is approaching a par with the Swiss franc, one of the hardest currencies in Europe...
Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey and the Federal Reserve Board had to move swiftly because, in an economy freed of direct controls, the burden of curbing inflation fell upon indirect fiscal controls, chiefly the restriction of credit. Though Eisenhower's moneymen have moved with seeming sureness, even they know that they are sailing, uncharted fiscal waters. For the first time, the U.S. is trying a great experiment: control of the ups and downs of a semi-war economy by fiscal and credit means alone...
Europe's moneymen, like its governments, have seldom been respecters of international frontiers. Some of the wealthiest shook hands across the Rhine last week in an $1 8 million deal that gave control of one of the Ruhr's biggest coal combines to France's biggest steelmaker...