Word: galbraith
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, author Michael Ryan '72 is "uniquely qualified to provide such advice" as a former homunculus in the "Harvard public-relations department" who shuttled "the occasional Pakistani dignitary between John K. Galbraith's lecture and the Faculty Club bar," Ryan states in his article...
Standing in the foyer of his Francis Ave. home, John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, doled out candy corn, tootsie rolls, and economic forecasts to nighttime visitors...
...Since (Federal Reserve Board chairman) Paul Volcker told us all that we'd have to reduce our standard of living, we're only giving out one piece of candy this year," Galbraith explained. "With Kennedy, though, we'll be back to two," he added...
...Chairman Volcker remains a man on the spot. Lane Kirkland, George Meany's apparent successor as president of the AFL-CIO, has already condemned the Fed's big rate boost as the "wrong move at the wrong time." Economist John Kenneth Galbraith labeled the Federal Reserve's program "an incredibly dubious policy" that will cause a steeper decline but help very little in slowing inflation...
...guest list read like a Who's Who of Camelot, with such notables as former speaker of the House John D. McCormack; John Kenneth Galbraith, Kennedy's ambassador to India and Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus; and former secretary of defense Robert W. McNamara conspicuous in the crowd...