Word: named
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moving backward to a "Buy American" program calculated to subsidize high-priced American products that could not otherwise compete in world markets. Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, fired off a barrage of hostile questions to DLF Director Vance Brand in the name of free trade...
...drift. He plans to delay any announcement of his candidacy until well along in 1960. Aware that Jack Kennedy could trounce him in mano a mano popularity contests, Symington is determined to stay out of primaries, and to do no campaigning in the Oregon primary, in which his name can be put on the ballot by petition without his consent. . If he loses in Oregon next May, he can explain that, after all, he was not even trying...
Viola ordered City Solicitor Richard D. Gerould '24 to instruct all election workers to mark every ballot notarized by this person with the name and address of the voter before these votes are placed in the ballot boxes...
...build the U.S.-and grew so powerful that he helped run it. Morgan left his father's London banking firm at 20 to try his own luck on Wall Street. After acting as agent for his father's firm, he went into business for himself under the name of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. He performed dazzling feats of finance one after another. His method was to buy control of banks and other financial institutions, use them to seize a dominating role in corporations, then reorganize, merge and centralize the corporations in a process that became known as "Morganization...
...from $118.6 million in 1929 to $39.2 million in 1940, as steep inheritance and income taxes ate away its strength. To save the firm from faltering, Morgan and Alexander worked out a plan to incorporate the old partnership, make it a public bank. In 1940 the firm changed its name to J. P. Morgan...