Word: valets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homes. Thus they need travel with nothing more than the clothing on their backs ("You don't have to waste time in customs, and you don't have to declare anything. It's wonderful!") and, of course, their constant retinue-two chefs, kitchen maid, personal maid, valet and three chambermaids-who can lug any last-minute packages...
...investors alike-had bid a total of $1,098,775 for 39 works-a sizable sum even at Parke-Bernet, which is one of the world's three biggest art and rare books auction houses. Aside from the Bonnard, two other paintings broke records. A splendid, red-faced Valet de Chambre by Chaim Soutine brought $76,000, nearly four times Soutine's auction record of seven years ago. An even bigger leap in value: a pair of superbly winsome lovers by Marc Chagall for $77,500, whose auction price was about half that only last April...
...Booster, and danced not the Charleston but a fandango along the gutters, in the brothels, bistros and mansards of Montparnasse. In telling about it all. he establishes the hardly original thesis that being broke is very hard work and that panhandling-working as cut-rate gigolo, or becoming valet-pimp to a parsimonious Parsee-can involve more shame and chicanery than the whole career of a Babbitt or a Cash McCall...
Last week's policy switch also represents a sharp about-face for William McChesney Martin, 54, the shrewd, conservative chairman of the FRB. During World War II and the early postwar years, the Fed was little more than the Treasury's valet, pegging bond prices to keep interest charges-and the cost of the war-low for the Government. Though the policy was fine for wartime, in peace it made the Fed, as one chairman, Marriner Eccles, complained, "an engine of inflation." Finally in 1951 the Fed rebelled, refusing to support the price of Treasury bonds...
...took over as chairman, with the task of making "bills preferably" stick. Since the Eisenhower Administration viewed the Fed as the primary means of reining inflation, he had little trouble. But early in the campaign Kennedy made plain that he thought the Fed had swung from its earlier valet role too far toward an independent, negative role in monetary control. He wanted more Fed-Treasury cooperation, especially as he viewed the Fed as only one means of controlling credit...