Word: presidentitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Jeep deal was typical of American's growth-minded aggressiveness since Chairman Chapin and President William V. Luneburg took over in 1967. At that time, AMC's future seemed so shaky that its creditors, a consortium of 24 banks headed by Chase Manhattan, examined the books every...
This year, starts of houses and apartments dropped from an annual rate of 1,900,000 in January to 1,300,000 in August. Despite a September upturn, which most economists dismiss as a freak performance by volatile statistics, the rate of housing starts may dip below 1,000,000...
Builders complain that housing is being squeezed by the Government for the fifth time in 15 years. Paul McCracken, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, admits that they have a point. Because housing depends so greatly on credit, he concedes, the industry lies "at the end...
ONE OF THE lesser-known privileges of being Mayor of a City (or a governor or President for that matter) is issuing proclamations. Under this practice, which dates back at least to Roman times, a public official issues a statement setting aside a day when the citizens in his jurisdiction...
In addition to his work at Harvard, Dr. Shipton served also as Librarian and Director of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester from 1940 to 1967, and for the year 1967-68 he was President of the Society of American Archivists.