Word: banker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Campbell turn back one page of TIME and read the more modern thought of Eisenhower: "Our competitive system is an essential feature of democracy, but the practice of competition gives no man, no group, the right to act for selfish and immediate gain against the interests of the nation. . . . Banker and borrower . . . politician and farmer . . . must each keep his eye upon the major good...
...this week it was evident that Congress could hardly bring itself to accept such Spartan cures as Banker Eccles recommended. With the new strains of the European Recovery Program still to be considered, the U.S. was bound to keep on sniffling for a long time...
...from the Bourbon Stockyards, he likes to call it "a stinking good bank"). Sanders works hard at both jobs and feels they go together fine. "Because I live in the same world my people do, I am closer to them," he says. "And I'm a better banker as the result of my preaching...
Valley Christian's pastor has a direct, put-up-or-shut-up banker's approach to most problems. At the church's annual fund-raising he says: "Give what you think this church is worth to you. If you think it's worth a dime, don't let anybody talk you into giving a dollar...
...citizen since 1924, Bloch taught in Manhattan, and headed conservatories in Cleveland and San Francisco. But he wanted to compose, not teach. For a time he was subsidized by Cellist Gerald Warburg (son of Banker Felix) and by a wealthy San Francisco family. He retired with his wife and cats to the Oregon seaside in 1941. There, while showing his lute-playing composer daughter how Bach used 48 themes in his Well-Tempered Clavier, he got the theme for the finale of his recent Suite Symphonique. "Suzanne and I were sitting on the little stone steps in the garden...