Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George Chaplin, who had been hired from the New Orleans Item largely because he had written more than 50 editorials urging Hawaiian statehood. With just a fraction of a percentage point over 50% of the stock then at his command, Twigg-Smith confronted his uncle and advised him to step down. A dumbstruck Lorrin P. Thurston took his nephew to court, but the suit was dismissed. In revenge, Thurston sold as much stock as he could to Copley...
...splendidly as the No. 1 drummer of U.S. everyman's capitalism. Funston's zeal helped raise the number of American shareowners from 6.5 million to 21.5 million. Last week, declaring that "I think I deserve a rest," Keith Funston, 55, announced that he would step down when his term expires next September-or earlier if the exchange finds a successor before then...
...another step to ease borrowing pressures, Johnson promised-and Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler promptly acted-to limit sales of certain kinds of federal securities, in order to "eliminate from the market as much federal demand for funds as possible." The President also asked the Federal Reserve Board and commercial banks to "seize the earliest opportunity" to reduce interest rates paid by borrowers-currently 6% for prime customers of major U.S. banks. As for interest rates paid to depositors, an Administration-backed bill giving the Federal Reserve Board and other regulatory agencies discretionary power to impose interest ceilings sailed through...
What was most important about the elections, in short, was that they were taking place at all. For with any luck, they would constitute the first step toward the construction of the democracy that Viet Nam has never known. The obstacles were many. In a nation torn by terrorism, if only 50% of the 5,250,000 registered voters went to the polls, it would be a signal victory for the government and give the lie to Viet Cong claims that the rebels control-or can coerce on command-most of the nation's population...
...best that can be said of Salinger's book is that it does not alter the figure of the President or the record of the Kennedy years. Salinger writes of what he observed, but that was from a position just one step closer than a White House reporter...