Word: warded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Society author, British Economist Barbara Ward, when he warned that "the scientific, technological and economic gap between the rich and poor nations is widening." Before leaving New York, he managed to lavishly praise Nelson Rockefeller, Senator Javits and Mayor Lindsay. Then he jetted off to the Republican Governors' Association conference in Colorado, where he again lambasted Lyndon Johnson for having created "public disillusionment...
...Along with four new vice chairmen: General Electric President Fred J. Borch, B. F. Goodrich President J. Ward Keener, Federated Stores President Ralph Lazarus and Hewlett-Packard Chairman David Packard...
THAT is how the politician hero of Hogan's Goat, a recent play about the 19th century Irish in Brooklyn, recalls the era when ward politics was one of the few ways in which the immigrant masses could dream of sharing power. The ethnic vote-the vote of "our kind"-has remained part of the American political vocabulary for a century. Big-city bosses operated on the assumption that they could deliver that vote to whatever candidate they chose-all they needed was a Christmas turkey, a memory for the names of the children, and a fluency...
...nation's income, makes it dangerously vulnerable. The man who gets full responsibility for solving these problems when his official title switches from Premier to Prime Minister this week is Errol Barrow, 46, a stocky, brilliant Negro lawyer who looks and operates like an oldtime American ward boss...
...some other retailers. Massachusetts Investors Trust, whose assets in 1966's first nine months declined 15%, to $1.9 billion, has bought some food companies, electrical companies and airlines. Sales by the funds lately have caused sharp drops in such stocks as Xerox, General Motors, Fairchiki Camera and Montgomery Ward, which early last week fell briefly to a 23-year low, mostly because of a 344,900-share sale by funds...