Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labors at Bretton Woods last July, England's Lord Keynes challenged the critics of the Keynes-White plan (for an international Fund and Bank - TIME, July 31). Said he, in sum, the critics must do more than criticize; they must show a better program. Last week W. Randolph Burgess, vice chairman of the National City Bank of New York, accepting the presidency of the American Bankers Association, accepted the challenge. Banker Burgess may have been disturbed by U.S. bankers' criticisms of the Bretton Woods plan - which in general have not offered a constructive substitute...
Archie McConnell, Adams House janitor, found the storm "of gale proportions," but not much heavier than the average "north or south-easter." The only damage was several broken windows in the Randolph section. Accounting for the fact that the hurricane did not reach the proportions of the 1938 tempest, when traffic was halted for several days, McConnell declared sagely that "it went...
...William Randolph Hearst, who unloaded part of his estimated $15,000,000 to $50,000,000 art collection by over-the-counter sales at Manhattan's Gimbel Bros., lost another estimated $300,000 to $500,000 worth in a fire which destroyed one of the main buildings at Wyntoon, his summer home in McCloud, Calif...
Such oratorical omelets, composed of Southern corn, overblown poetical allusions, rough waggery and incoherent rambling have seldom been presented in the halls of Congress since the days when John Randolph of Roanoke used to stride into the House, whip in hand, followed by a Negro boy with a flagon of porter, to administer a tongue-lashing to Henry Clay...
...Partisans could never figure out Major Randolph Churchill-his fits, bravado and geniality. They generally defined him as "the incredible Englishman." Randolph was constantly hunting up his batman. "Salmon! Where is Salmon? Salmon, I say, you must be with me!" Then he would praise Salmon in public, whereupon Salmon would draw himself up: "Sir, I don't like to be made fun of!" During the rest pauses, super-active Randolph would think up various picnic pleasures, such as constructing a nice bivouac when all we wanted was to be left alone and lie in the grass. He never fussed...