Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Normally opposing factions were unanimous last week in praising President Johnson's appointment of 40-year-old Federal Deposit Insurance Director William W. Sherrill to the Federal Reserve Board. Texas Democrat Wright Patman, an easy-money champion, predicted that Sherrill would be a "fine member," and Charls E. Walker, executive vice president of the American Bankers Association, praised the appointee's "competence and integrity...
...code name for Johnson. Whenever he moved, they literally shielded him with a wall of bodies; they even decided to remove the 1,430-lb. chandelier that hung over the conference table around which Johnson and the other Presidents would sit. Offshore was anchored the helicopter carrier U.S.S. Wright, whose communications room contained the hot line to the Kremlin just in case some international crisis arose during which Johnson might want to talk with the Soviet leaders...
Stars of the pool were Janet Wright and Ginny Storrs, who won two events each: Miss Wright the 40-yard Freestyle and 40-yard Breaststroke, and Miss Storrs he 20-yard Butterfly and the Individual Medley. Both girls were also anchor legs in the Freestyle Relay...
...night's events will conclude Quincy's eighth annual Arts Festival. Man of the Year at last year's festival was play wright William Alfred, professor of English...
...reappointed him with reluctance, made a barebones announcement of the news. Johnson also made a point of including the information that Board Member Charles N. Shepardson, a longtime Martin supporter, will face mandatory retirement when he reaches 70 late this month. Another sour note was struck by Texas Democrat Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking Committee and an outspoken easy-money advocate. Martin's reappointment, said Patman, will "cause this Administration much sorrow in future years...