Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...version of Fleur Cowles's late, ill-starred Flair. It looked even more like the fancy and expensive ($3 a copy) trade quarterly, American Fabrics, also published by Reporter Publications. Gentry abounded in detachable inserts (an architect's plans for a Finnish steam bath, a 16-page portfolio of engravings of ducks) and three-color textile ads illustrated by swatches of materials (Shetland woolens, fine corduroys, cotton shirtings, etc.). Gentry extended the sample theme to its articles, in one of which a bag of marjoram was glued to a piece about the herb. In later issues, Gentry...
...expert in business law, yet his law office was bursting with business clients who had cases not before the courts, but before administrative agencies. In one ten-week period of 1949, when he was virtually running the committee (without salary), Boyle added eight new major cases to his portfolio, each involving a federal agency. They were worth, by his own estimate, $158,000 in fees. He was grossing about $100,000 a year...
...Boston papers, sent his journalism students through a night bakery, a waiting room, a steel mill and a railroad station, to see how well the phrases were understood. Samples: bipartisan foreign policy, act of overt aggression, fusillade of shots, dereliction of duty, titular head of the party, diplomat without portfolio, deficit spending, eschewing presidential ambitions, policy of containment. The average reader got nearly half the phrases wrong. Even "bipartisan foreign policy" had hard going; some of those questioned thought it meant that both Roman Catholics and Protestants should be employed in the State Department...
...treasury. He ignored pointed suggestions that he resign, surrendered ?16,000 of the treasury' funds only when Harvard sent a tutor to Philadelphia to collect them. Not until Hancock died 16 years later did Harvard recover all its property. *Some Crimson-held blue chips in the 1950 portfolio: $3,000,000 of General Electric Co. (74,000 shares), more than $1,000,000 each of Union Carbide, Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), American Telephone & Telegraph, Seaboard Oil, Texas Co., Texas Pacific Coal & Oil, Illinois Power, Niagara Mohawk, Ohio Edison...
...North Shore. A faintly Renaissance gate opening on ten driveways, houses ranging in style from Jacobean to classical revival, a very private beach, old families not merely rich but entirely accustomed to it-this is the special world about which Ethan Ayer writes. His book is a portfolio of vignettes: the well-bred old snobs, the new, vulgar rich, the wealthy young weaklings and, behind all these, the pompous and romantic servants...