Word: mr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ironic that Senator Kennedy [Aug. 1], who speaks in favor of equality, should now be a graphic example of the advantages of the inequality in our society. Fortunately for Mr. Kennedy, the international tradition that an abundance of coinage and lineage supersedes justice under the law has not changed in spite of his rhetoric...
...about to perpetrate a stunning new kind of killing-that of character assassination? What about those who attempt to postulate what Mr. Kennedy might do as President, with his finger on the nuclear trigger, or faced with other momentous decisions? What rational individual can compare the victim of near-death by drowning and a cerebral concussion to a healthy Chief Executive at his desk? Surely all proponents of logic will balk at the outrage of this fallacious speculating...
Died. Sidney Weinberg, 77, financial giant who deserved the sobriquet "Mr. Wall Street" (see BUSINESS...
...account for Sidney J. Weinberg's success by saying that he was a nice guy seems singularly naive. His achievements and influence were far too extraordinary for so simple an explanation. For decades he was Mr. Wall Street, the director's director, the master floater of securities issues, the headhunter who as Washington's top-dollar-a-year man brought hordes of high-powered executives to the capital to organize and run the World War II and Korean mobilization efforts. He served as informal financial adviser to five Presidents, from F.D.R. to L.B.J., and was at different...
Preliminary Splutter. His best novels -Kipps, Tono-Bungay, Mr. Britling Sees It Through-have their share of belowstairs social comedy and wistful aspirations. But as an artist as well as a prophet, Dickson judges Wells "all brains and very little heart." In Boon, his wicked attack on Henry James, he may have been assaulting in James what was missing in himself: infinite care and moral responsibility...