Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British troops from Suez. Bevan got to his feet full of facts and figures about anti-government articles Churchill had written for foreign papers during the '30s. He went on to quote a blustery article Sir Winston had written 40 years ago in defense of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill. "This right honorable gentleman," interrupted Sir Winston, "has hitherto been trying to hide behind me. Now I gather he is endeavoring to hide behind my father." The duel came to a sudden end when Sir Winston had to leave the floor, apparently for a room which in Britain always...
...Married. Randolph Adolphus ("Randy") Turpin, 25, British middleweight boxing champion; and Gwyneth Price, 27, daughter of a Welsh farmer; he for the second time, she for the first; in Wellington, England...
...Another New-Fair Dealer, Economist Leon Keyserling, describes a recession as a "short-run downturn of moderate or even large proportions." The Commerce Department's Under Secretary Walter Williams talks darkly of the time when "soft spots merge and a breakthrough is imminent." Treasury's Deputy Secretary Randolph Burgess is precise. A recession exists, says he, only when gross national product falls at least 5% (which would mean a drop from the current $371 billion to $352 billion...
DESPITE South Africa's drive to raise the world price of gold above $35 an oz., the U.S. has flatly refused and sees no change in the future. Treasury's W. Randolph Burgess thinks the increase would not rectify unbalanced world trade, the big source of the world's economic ills...
When William Randolph Hearst died two years ago, the editorial management of his 16-newspaper empire went to his son and namesake, Bill Jr. The other four brothers were scattered throughout the empire in important executive posts. Last week Bill Hearst's Manhattan headquarters announced that his younger brother Randolph, 37, was retiring as publisher of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin to step into the No. 2 spot in the chain. Randy's title: president of Hearst Publishing Co., Inc. and assistant general manager, Hearst Newspapers, i.e., boss of Hearst papers in the West...