Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first, Connally went along with the Shultz conclusions; then he started boning up on reports dealing with the nation's economic miseries. Urged on by two deputies?Paul Volcker, an expert in international monetary affairs, and Murray Weidenbaum, a specialist in the domestic economy?Connally soon found himself studying a package of proposals that contained the basic ingredients of the New Economic Policy. Early in July, Connally asked his staff for weekly memos on anything that was on their minds. "I wanted their opinions on where we are," he recalls, "on the President, the Congress, the economy, what should...
...reason was made clear at a series of hearings held by New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams just before Congress recessed two weeks ago. One witness, New York Shoe Salesman Murray Finkelstein, recounted how he piled up pension credits for 19 years. Then, last year, the store where he worked went out of business. Now he must work for 15 more years before he can draw a pension under his new employer's plan. "I will have to be 75 before I can retire," he told the committee. "I've had a heart attack...
...slaughtered eagles turned out to be all too true. Not only had 770 golden and bald eagles been killed in Wyoming, but they had been shot in the least sportsmanlike way of all-from helicopters. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee, James Vogan, a balding, heavy-set helicopter pilot from Murray, Utah, told how he had ferried sharpshooters and so-called "sportsmen" over ranches in Colorado and Wyoming to "sluice" the eagles. Sluicing is what Westerners call the unsporting act of shooting sitting ducks, or eagles. Vogan also said that he knew of $15,000 paid to the flying service that...
Fast and Low. The source of the anti-Burns stories was almost certainly Charles Colson, a special presidential counsel described by other aides as eager to replace former Assistant Murray Chotiner as the toughest backstage White House operator. They portray Colson as acting on his own in floating the reports. "You expect this kind of thing as a political year comes on," explained one such aide. "But it's starting out awfully fast-and awfully...
...familiar one. In A Thousand Clowns, Scenarist Herb Gardner created Murray Burns, the same avian specimen ostentatiously hiding his self-pity in a cloak of jokes. Georgie is a blurred replica of Murray, surrounded by the same narcissistic suffering and arriving at the same lame insights: "Time is not a thief; he's an embezzler, juggling the books at night so you don't notice anything's missing...