Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STUART CARY WELCH joined his grammar school class on a field trip to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts when he was 11. At the museum, the students dutifully marched through an exhibition of Indian and Persian paintings. Welch's classmates, one supposes, paid attention to the paintings for as long as they had to. But Welch really liked what he saw. He liked it so much, in fact, that seven years later, after he finished his schooling at St. Paul's, Welch came back to Boston to study fine arts at Harvard...
...Mitchell in his small inner office. At my request there was an easel set up. I greeted the Attorney General and, as Magruder [Jeb Stuart Magruder, deputy director of the Committee to Re-Elect the President] seated himself in front of the desk with Dean, I set up my charts...
...Boca Raton, Fla., where he was reported to have dropped in on a weekend bankers' convention, Hunt was busy tidying up business deals. The silver baron woke up last Monday morning with IOUs scattered all over Wall Street. Chief among them: $33 million to Bache Halsey Stuart Shields; $10 million to Paine Webber and $4 million to St. Louis Broker A.G. Edwards. The biggest debt was owed to Engelhard Minerals and Chemical Co. Hunt had contracts to buy 19 million oz. of silver from the firm at $35 per oz. Fulfilling that agreement would have meant paying $665 million...
...late January, dropped to a low of $463 last week. In the stock market, further rumors reported that Hunt and his associates were dumping stocks to raise cash in order to repay their silver loans, and that their maneuvers had threatened the major investment house of Bache Halsey Stuart Shields. That led to what one Wall Street veteran called "a classic case of panic." The Dow Jones industrial average fell 25 points within a few hours, then recouped 23 points of the loss within the half-hour before the close, as traders apparently realized that Hunt's adventures...
Last week Ford was getting some solid signs of support. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met with Ford in Palm Springs and said he would endorse his candidacy. New York State Republican Party Chairman Bernard Kilbourn urged Ford to run. Stuart Spencer, a key Ford strategist during the 1976 race, began putting together a campaign staff. Ford met with Ohio Governor James Rhodes, among others, to discuss politics. He even conferred with John Sears, the man Reagan fired as his campaign manager on the day the Californian won big in New Hampshire. Neither man would say whether...