Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been drawing his largest audiences in years. No Australian government has been subjected "to such utter cussedness and harassment," he said. If Whitlam is not inclined to duck the present face-off, neither is Fraser, particularly after picking up the public support last month of respected former Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies...
...figures, and the Cabinet relegated to the role of a rubber stamp. Attlee, along with a small group in the Defense Sub-Committee of the Cabinet, made the crucial (for Labor party politics) decision to develop British nuclear weapons without consulting or informing the rest of his government. Sir Anthony Eden (a Conservative) worked out plans for Suez without informing his Cabinet of them, much less getting their approval. In both cases the Cabinet Ministers were bound--by the Catch-22 called collective responsibility--to support decisions in which they had no part. Britain had moved from Bagehot's Cabinet...
Hutchison was built in taipan (big boss) style by Sir Douglas Clague, a 59-year-old Rhodesia-born Englishman. Under his aegis the company boosted profits from $3 million in 1969 to $27 million in 1973, mainly by buying up other companies at a headlong pace. To pay for them, it floated no fewer than ten stock issues in three years, ballooning the number of shares outstanding from 13 million in 1971 to 269 million in May of this year. Between mid-1973 and last December, however, a crash on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and declining confidence in Hutchison...
Dowson for twelve years had been living with his secretary, Pamela Awbery, 43. In July he took out a license to marry her in September-but now Dowson ungallantly insists that "Sir John talked me into it. He said I had to do it for the company image." Davis had another interest: Awbery is a close friend of his own mistress, Felicity Rutland, a 37-year-old who was Britain's debutante of the year in 1956. A mere two weeks before he was supposed to marry Awbery, Dowson stole away to marry instead a mysterious 26-year...
Dowson got out with over $300,000 in severance pay and one further worry: Pamela Awbery asserts she wants some of it. Says Dowson, rather waspishly, "It is a pity that the issue of wives and mistresses ever came into it because Sir John's record with women is appalling. As far as I know none of his ex-wives or girl friends have many kind things to say about him. If all my previous wives were around, I am sure they would still be rooting forme...