Word: saxonism
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...sharpest battle in U.S. banking has been fired up by handsome James J. Saxon, 49, who as Comptroller of the Currency supervises the 4,500 nationally chartered banks. "The commercial banking system needs rescuing," says Saxon grandly-and he has set out on what he considers a rescue mission by permitting national banks to branch out more freely than state banks, which are regulated by state banking commissions. By liberalizing branching policies, he aims to break the hold that many small-town and suburban bankers have on their areas. Critical state bankers charge that Saxon's expansion plans would...
...History of Far Eastern Civilizations," offers an antidote to those suffering from the parochialism of Cambridge. A temporal escape inheres in Alfred's English 200a, a course for beginners in Anglo-Saxon poetry...
...separate "self-dependence" for his race, left for good in 1948 in a dispute over-of all things-his endorsement of Henry A. Wallace for President. Haughtily elegant, sporting a white goatee and pince-nez, he boasted of his French-Dutch-Negro mixed blood ("but, thank God, no Anglo-Saxon"), turned left with age, two years ago moved to Ghana to become director of the Nkrumah government-sponsored Encyclopedia Africana, and joined the Communist Party, apologizing for having been so "long and slow" in confirming his Red faith...
...Paracelsus, Bishop Berkeley, Immanuel Kant, Herbert Spencer, Descartes and Pico della Mirandola," says Harry, proving himself the young man's intellectual peer. This Harry is a versatile man with words as well as ideas. When a street singer ambles past him, he tells the street singer in Anglo-Saxon syllables to go copulate with a duck...
...demimonde make continental capitals seem parochial. Until recent years, it was impossible to go to dinner at London's most fashionable clubs or private houses without passing swarms of well-turned-out and sometimes handsome streetwalkers standing guard on the sidewalk. Like many another foreign analyst of Anglo-Saxon attitudes, French Diarist Hippolyte Taine, visiting London in the mid 19th century, could not comprehend how the English could sustain the "vehemence and pungency of their passions" against "the harsh, though silent, grinding of their moral machinery...