Word: viziers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Seymour Weiss, 73, a grand vizier of Louisiana Kingfish Huey Long's political empire; of a heart attack; in Baton Rouge. A onetime New Orleans barbershop manager, Weiss was the man to see about practically everything once his friend Long became Governor in 1928; he ladled out patronage, determined how party funds would be spent -or misspent-and served as Long's most trusted adviser. So entrenched did Weiss become that he remained a power after Long's 1935 assassination-until 1940, when he was finally put behind bars for mail fraud...
...served as chief examiner for housing programs in the Federal Budget Bureau and deputy director of the community action program in the Office of Economic Opportunity. » Thomas Hoving, 35, a New Yorker with a Princeton Ph.D. (in art history), who was a museum curator before becoming grand vizier of "fun city." Hoving has brought life and imagination to the park system as parks commissioner, recently took on the post of city director of cultural and recreational affairs to try to do the same on a wider scale...
Attacking this proposal as "fantastic" and illegal, Moses seemed unwittingly to be speaking for the entire establishment that Lindsay is challenging when he recalled his 40 years as "sultan, vizier, pasha and emir" of assorted public enterprises. The final frustration for Lindsay came at legislative committee hearings, when Bob Wagner questioned the desirability of a transit czar with the acerbic comment that the official "would need to be Superman and Batman rolled into...
...away and many years ago, a son was born to wise and mighty king. The sovereign placed the education of his son in the hands of his Grand Vizier who saw hat the boy learned both rhetoric and natural philosophy...
...Cabinet, promptly got down to business with a two-hour state-of-theunion speech to the newly elected Majlis. To be sure, the Shahanshah remains firmly in command of land reform, foreign affairs, financial matters and other basic policies. But as the Shah's skillful grand vizier, Alam has done more to modernize the Peacock Throne than any other Premier in the nation's history...