Word: williams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...furled umbrella and powerful cigar are familiar to every newsman in Washington. He is a regular participant in the lunchtime poker-dice games at the bar of the Metropolitan Club. His counsel has been sought-or pointedly ignored-by every President since William Howard Taft. Woodrow Wilson often talked out his problems with him during the Paris peace talks that ended World War I.F.D.R. once regarded him as a "Hoover agent," twice tried unsuccessfully to get him fired. Both Jack and Bobby Kennedy submitted the manuscripts of their first books to him for critical comment. To his secretary, Laura Waltz...
...some extent, Krock himself takes the blame for the Supreme Court's liberal outlook. It was he who suggested, in 1939, the appointment of Justice William O. Douglas, one of his closest Washington friends, who turned out to be one of the Court's most unyielding liberals...
Last week Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin, using an analogy of which he is fond, likened the economy to an automobile that has merely cut its speed from 90 m.p.h. to 70-still much too fast for safety. "Business at present has a strong inflationary bias," Martin said. If prices keep on shooting up at their 4½%-a-year rate, he added, the Reserve Board may even feel forced to return to a tighter money policy. Commerce Secretary C. R. Smith warned that unchecked inflation could "reduce us to a second-class trading power" by pricing...
Both the guest list and the itinerary symbolized Brown Brothers Harriman's intimate connections with U.S. industry and global finance. There were such business bigwigs as U.S. Steel's Roger Blough, Bethlehem's Edmund Martin, Columbia Broadcasting's William S. Paley, President Orville Beal of Prudential Insurance, and Texaco Chairman Howard Rambin Jr. Among the foreign bankers: Director Otmar Emminger of West Germany's Deutsche Bundesbank, Governor Louis Rasminsky of the Bank of Canada, Vice Chairman Marcus Wallenberg of the powerful Stockholms Enskilda Bank...
Seating by Computer. Brown Brothers Harriman saw to everyone's comfort with the best of banker-like touches. Computers matched the guests' characteristics to promote compatible seating at dinners. There was an armored car to carry valuables from the Olympic Hotel to Union Station while Chairman William M. Allen of Boeing (a Brown Brothers client) entertained the group at his home after a tour of his company's Renton plant. Then everybody got aboard two 20-car Union Pacific special trains for the long run to Sun Valley, Idaho. There, behind closed doors, they took part...