Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...forget that he comes from the American theatre's royal family. If you can forget all that, and just take him for a drunken, lecherous, old man with a sense of humor and a flair of exhibitionism, you'll enjoy the picture. But actually, another aristocrat has bit the dust...
Command of this fury was in the hands of a strangely mild aristocrat. General Alexander Papagos, whose thin face and batwing ears bear a striking resemblance to those of Spain's ex-King Alfonso, inherited from one of Greece's first families a gentle education and gentler manners. But he seemed to give his troops both courage and the initiative of which upsets are made...
...Aristocrat turned Socialist, Federico Pinedo, Finance Minister in the new Argentine Cabinet, combines progressive economic views with smart financial moves. When he was Finance Minister once before (1933), Pinedo created the Central Bank and the present Foreign Exchange Control, topped off these with a brilliant maneuver: he alchemized a British loan from credit figures on the books of British banks into actual gold metal, shipped the metal to Argentina, turned it into pesos and marked up a profit of millions of pesos in the national treasury...
...Buenos Aires. Mr. Pierson's bank last week received $500,000,000 additional lending capital when President Roosevelt signed a bill designed to enable South American countries to build up their own industries, including armaments for hemisphere defense. When it's raining dollars, any banker, even an aristocrat like Pinedo, instinctively will turn his umbrella upside down...
Last week President Roosevelt wrote a letter regretting that Dr. Hart had accepted an offer. This one was from Boston's big, swank Trinity Church (salary: $15,000; communicants: 2,400), to be vacated this fall by another Southern aristocrat, Rev. Arthur Lee ("Little Tui") Kinsolving, who leaves for modest little Trinity Church at Princeton, N. J. Boston should give Rector Hart another chance to refuse a bishopric, if he wishes to. Before "Tui" Kinsolving (who did not stay long enough), Trinity's three rectors each became a bishop...