Word: nabob
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...Breed Apart. As the son of one of the richest men in the U.S.-and a millionaire in his own right on his 21st birthday-he might well have become a minted conservative. But the Kennedys were a breed apart: Father Joe Kennedy was a Wall Street nabob and a man of many reactionary convictions, yet he swallowed Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal whole. Later, as U.S. Ambassador to Britain on the eve of war, he broke emphatically with Roosevelt on the issue of U.S. involvement in World War II. In the salad days of the New Deal, Jack...
...Loyalty Review Board (to which he was appointed by Harry Truman to counter Republican charges that the Administration was harboring disloyal employees), World War I aviator, history teacher (at Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Johns Hopkins), explorer-author (Lost City of the Incas) and biographer (Elihu Yale-The American Nabob of Queen Square); after long illness; in Washington. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.), scholarly Hiram Bingham was one of four legislators censured by the U.S. Senate in its 167-year history (the others: South Carolina's John L. McLaurin and Benjamin ("Pitchfork Ben") Tillman, 1902; Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy...
...means all light and verity. Yalemen have long suspected this about the onetime Governor of Madras. But being pretty true blue themselves, most have followed the advice of Historian Robert Dudley French, '10, that "loyal sons of Yale . . . not question too closely the sources of this nabob's wealth." Last week, from Warwick, England came word that someone was not only questioning, but had found several decidedly blue answers...
Hollywood is in the dreadful predicament of a pauperized nabob suddenly reduced to four limousines. Oldtimers are telling newtimers that the town has never been so scared. Chief apparent reason: the new "confiscatory" British tax, which would rob Hollywood of its comfortable profit margin (TIME...
...lush young native girl (Jean Simmons) and a splendidly dressed young nobleman (Sabu) come to the convent to learn the ways of God and of Western civilization, but stay to play peekaboo. The local nabob's insolent British handyman (David Farrar) lolls about the nunnery in shorts, displaying enough chest hair to stuff a kneeling cushion...