Word: outspoken
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...from the merchant bankers who bankrolled Britain's colonial expansion and cleared whole continents in the days when sterling was supreme. The most influential among them is the scion of a 200-year-old banking family: George R. S. Baring, 46, third Earl of Cromer, who, as the outspoken and energetic Governor of the Bank of England, was the chief British architect of last fortnight's $3 billion rescue of the pound. At the top of the private banks are scores of modern-day Rothschilds, Schroders, Brandts, Hambros and other heirs to ancient City fortunes. Despite this strong...
Died. Alberto Tarchiani, 79, Italy's Ambassador to the U.S. from 1945 to 1955, when he rallied U.S. moral and monetary support for Italy's new republic; an early, outspoken anti-Fascist who, as editor of Milan's influential Corriere della Sera in the early 1920s, and later as an indefatigable agitator exiled in Paris, was so unrelenting a foe of Mussolini's that he eventually found himself near the top of Il Duce's must-kill list; in Rome...
Taylor himself, when he took the job of ambassador last July, and for two years before that as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was an outspoken opponent of escalation as long as the government in Saigon remained unstable. But, says a ranking U.S. official, "Now that he has got his feet dirty, he may be changing his mind a little...
...Martin Luther King was not yet born, but even then there were enough outspoken Negroes to keep Mr. Hoover busy. That year he assumed directorship of the General Intelligence Division of the Justice Department and promptly reported that "the reds have done a vast amount of evil damage by carrying the doctrine of race revolt and the poison of Bolshevism to the Negroes." To illustrate his case to Congress, Hoover brandished these damming quotes from the contemporary Negro press...
...hoarsest voices cheering President Johnson when he came to Boston on October 27 belonged to Hugo Portlist, a militant Goldwater critic who wryly calls himself "the most outspoken anti-conservative in East Waltham...