Word: hannaford
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...drew closer, English civilians saw increasingly less of the Americans, or for that matter their own soldiers. As early as December 1943, residents were cleared out of coastal villages that the invaders needed for training and sent elsewhere for a year or so. Butcher George Hannaford recalls that when he returned home to the hamlet of Torcross at the age of 13, "a cowshed and a pigsty were demolished out back of my father's shop, and apple trees were down. It was a tank park there, I think." After April 1,1944, no unauthorized civilian travelers were allowed...
...husband, who was distracted by the loss of his old friend and fatigued, and she sought to lift the burden of the evening as much as possible from his shoulders. In this she was assisted, in a diffident but effective way, by one of the other guests, Peter Hannaford, a partner of Michael Deaver's in a Washington public relations firm. It is common for assistants to shield the great men for whom they work from the importunities of outsiders. The tendency to protect Reagan, even to answer questions that were clearly addressed to him, went beyond the usual...
...were built for the old Orient Express. They have comfortable English names like Audrey and Agatha (not for Miss Christie, who wrote Murder on the Orient Express) or else daunting classical appellations like Perseus and Phoenix. Some English passengers are greeted by name at Victoria by brown-liveried Brian Hannaford, an oldtime Pullman chief steward who has also been restored to service...
...Allen did not have enough problems, it was revealed last week that he had misrepresented some past business dealings. The day before Reagan took office last January, Allen sold his consulting firm, Potomac International Corp., to Peter Hannaford, a former Reagan aide. But in a financial disclosure report filed with the Office of Government Ethics last February, Allen wrote that he sold the firm three years earlier. He claimed last week that it was just a "dumb mistake." Yet by stating that he had sold the firm in 1978, he avoided having to reveal the worth of Potomac International...
...well-organized "issues staff" producing accurate position papers or correcting errors. From his loose network of conservative consultants, he has had only two major briefings this year on domestic issues, the last one before the debate in Nashua, N.H., on Feb. 23. "We're like an amoeba," Hannaford says of the Reagan brain trust. "We're constantly dividing and re-forming into policy groups. We operate a lot by conference telephone calls...