Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...action, daily volume this year had been averaging about 52.3 million shares. The week's total volume of 455 million shares shattered the old record of 329 million set in March. In fact, more shares were sold last week than in the entire year of 1953. Said Samuel Kachel, a broker with Merrill Lynch, who was still answering his phone late on Friday: "I'm tired as all hell. This was an exceptional week...
...espionage is hardly a new phenomenon. Since earliest times, in fact, it has been a source of fear and the cause of extraordinary precautions. The ancient Chinese were so eager to preserve the secret of silkmaking that they prescribed death by torture for revealing it to outsiders. In 1790 Samuel Slater evaded English laws against exporting textile manufacturing plans by memorizing the layout of a mill to build the first cotton-yarn factory in America...
...Lebanon. Begin also called for young Jews in France to guard their neighborhoods if the police did not. But his plea was rejected by the religious leaders of the 700,000-member Jewish community in France, the fourth largest in the world. Said Chief Rabbi of France René Samuel Sirat: "The sole responsibility of protecting the lives and property of Jews rests with the state and the police...
...DIED. Samuel M. Kootz, 83, foresighted art dealer and paladin of abstract expressionism in America; in New York City. Kootz helped to define the emerging school by showing such artists as Robert Motherwell, Hans Hofmann, Carl Holty, Fritz Glarner and Adolph Gottlieb. As a critic and author, Kootz griped about American artists who poured "their ideas into the same corny molds." By contrast, he wrote of the abstract expressionists' works: "Dramatically personal, each painting contains part of the artist's self, this revelation of himself in paint being a conscious revolt from our Puritan heritage...
...Menachem" since the two men met last September. The President reminded Begin that U.S. weapons could only be used for defensive purposes. But a warning about possible sanctions that was included in an early draft was left out, partly at the behest of America's Ambassador to Israel, Samuel Lewis, who argued that even raising the issue would infuriate the Begin government. Reagan's accompanying public statement was, once again, even more muted. Said he: "I have expressed to the government of Israel the absolute necessity of re-establishing and maintaining a strict cease-fire in place...