Word: richness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stayed in the lobbyist's unoccupied suite at New York City's Essex House "five or six or seven, eight times a year" from 1962 through 1965. But then other friends had also given Dodd free lodging in New York, he volunteered, explaining: "I am not a rich man. I am not ashamed of it. I wish I were. I was always glad to have a place to stay where I could without cost...
...York's Democratic chieftains made few headlines last May when they picked Arthur Klein as their candidate for Manhattan surrogate, a job rich in patronage and rife with possibilities of scandal (see THE LAW). In the course of ten years on the State Supreme Court, Democrat Klein, 61, had earned a sound judicial reputation, and as frequently happens in New York, Tammany Boss J. Raymond ("the Fox") Jones and his Republican counterpart agreed to make the judicial nomination bipartisan. Such pacts were originally justified by the argument that they freed judgeships from domination by one party or party boss...
...state capital's morning daily was founded in 1851 to bring the news to the crowds that had drifted into town with the '49 gold rush. Back in those good old days, stories ran under the bylines of Mark Twain and Bret Harte; the paper was so rich in talent that Jack London was merely a stringer. Since then, though, the Union has suffered a morose procession of 15 different owners and be ome steadily more anemic under each one. By this spring it was down to just 30 pages a day. Circulation was a slim...
...took a small step to make it unprofitable for commercial banks to pay high rates for certificates of deposit; it raised the reserves that banks must stash away against large time deposits from 4% to 5%. That only infuriated the board's critics. "An invisible crumb from the rich man's table," fumed Chairman Wright Patman of the House Banking Committee, "a horselaugh at people in distress...
Died. Zinaida Pasternak, 69, second wife of the late Boris Pasternak, who married the author in the early 1930s, and may or may not (no one will say) have had access to the rich Swiss bank account set up for Pasternak's heirs by the Italian publisher of Doctor Zhivago; of cancer; in Moscow...