Word: patricians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Value Modification bill, which will devalue the dollar 8.57% by raising the price of gold, its prospects for relatively swift passage were all but certain. The man most responsible for anesthetizing the issue in Congress-and thus allowing an unavoidable economic adjustment to take place-is a thoughtful, patrician Democratic Representative from Milwaukee named Henry Reuss. Testifying before the Joint Economic Committee last week. Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns told a blushing Reuss: "If it weren't for you, I doubt that the Smithsonian agreement [devaluing the dollar and realigning currency-exchange rates] would have been concluded when...
...acting is superb, particularly Innes-Fergus McDade as Mrs. Venable, the obsessed, patrician Southern matron, Jeannie Lindheim, as Catherine, is slightly less effective, perhaps because her character is less clearly drawn. The best of the minor characters is Mary Elizabeth Leach as Catherine's mother, a fluttery, weakminded old lady who only wants to keep things calm so that she can get part of Sebastian's estate...
...chief executive officer. Though his influence is powerful, he is "a builder, not a poet," as Journalist Edgar Snow says. Chou is usually described as a "moderate" or a "pragmatist." But he is also, in all senses of the word, an opportunist. To some of those who knew the patrician Premier when he was starring in student theatricals (once in a female part) in the Teens, he is a skillful dissembler, not to be trusted in any circumstances. But most Westerners who have met Chou would agree with Henry Kissinger, who said last week: "He is not a petty...
Gentlemanly Resignation. This spectacular interventionism, unparalleled in peacetime America, could be carried off only by a man of singular self-assurance. This Acheson had-to a fault. His career was a textbook example of the rise of a 'patrician in the snug embrace of the American Establishment. His father was a clergyman who migrated to the U.S. from Britain and became Episcopal bishop of Connecticut. His mother was an heiress, daughter of a family of Canadian whisky distillers. Young Dean attended Groton, Yale and Harvard Law School. He married Alice Stanley, his sister's roommate at Wellesley...
Richmond Newspapers, Inc. (Times-Dispatch and News Leader) hired him in 1950 as research director and part-time editorial writer to work alongside the noted conservative James J. Kilpatrick. Donnahoe had risen to executive vice president by 1966 when D. Tennant Bryan, the patrician third-generation publisher, decided that the papers should go public. In 1969 the corporation was renamed Media General, with Bryan as chairman and Donnahoe as president...