Word: mr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baseball tickets from a Shinnecock member named Charles Steele, a partner in the firm of the famous financier J.P. Morgan. When he arrived, Steele was in a board meeting with Morgan himself, so Thom sent in a note that read: "THE KING OF SHINNECOCK IS WAITING TO SEE MR. STEELE." Thom was then welcomed into the meeting and introduced around. Before he left, Morgan handed him a $20 gold piece, saying, "I don't ever want anyone to say he wasn't paid for the time he spent in conference here...
...know why President Carter chose Bert Lance as budget director and has such confidence in him. Anybody who can juggle his personal finances the way Mr. Lance has had to do obviously was ready for bigger things. The guy is a magician-just the quality we need to balance the federal budget...
...asked what his role was in establishing the relationship between the two banks. Answered Lance: "Practically none. That was handled pretty much by the folks at both banks. I did not engage in those conversations at all." The comptroller's report on Lance finds otherwise. It states: "Mr. Lance actively participated in establishing the correspondent relationship between NBG and FNBC in November 1976." The whole pattern of Lance's receiving loans from banks with which NBG had or was about to develop correspondent relations was explored by the comptroller's report, and Lance was cleared...
...Essay, Mr. Morrow founds his argument on Philip Rahv's quasi-philosophical sigh that nothing can last in America for more than ten years. So much for the Constitution, John Wayne, apple pie, Saul Bellow and the Ford Motor...
...wisdoms" and its rock troubadours. He lists the end of the war and the draft, the wide acceptance of marijuana, and women's liberation as the New Left's enduring accomplishments. Whether these will positively shape the course of the future remains to be seen. Mr. Morrow seems unbothered by long-range outcomes. He comforts and encourages the radicals that their "cycle will surely come around again...