Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Affairs, Nova Scotia-born lawyer who gave most of his career to education, was president of the University of Manitoba (1934-44) and the University of Toronto (1945-57), entered politics at 60 when-soon after the first Tory election victory in 22 years-he accepted the External Affairs portfolio in 1957; of a cere-'bral hemorrhage; in Ottawa...
...north. Above all, we are now secure in the knowledge that Rome thinks .of us, no matter how small and unimportant we may be." Last week Cardinal Agaganian plunged into a six-day tour of Catholic missions on Formosa and the Pescadores Islands. Already he carried in his portfolio an urgent request from Chiang Kai-shek's government for closer Vatican ties; in exchange, Agaganian may ask draft exemption for students for the priesthood and permission to build more schools for the island's growing Catholic flock (now 114,000). Next week, after celebrating Mass in Taipei...
Back in Washington, Mikoyan was greeted by still more Americans certain he had peace proposals packed away in his portfolio. Lunching on steak with members of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mikoyan waxed expansive on the Rapacki plan for neutralizing Germany, suggested that Russian and Western troops each withdraw 500 miles from Berlin. Such a retreat, leaving the Russians comfortably on their own soil, the U.S. uncomfortably somewhere west of Paris, had twice before been urged by the Russians, twice before been rejected by the West. Nonetheless, Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who had met Mikoyan during his headlined Kremlin...
...Jones & Laughlin stock that Manhattan's Harry Schweitzer bought in 1955 at 38¾ is up to 60¾. His Continental Steel has gone from 33⅜ to 57¼, his Hecht Co. from 29¾ to 42⅝. All in all, the 895 shares in the Schweitzer portfolio were worth $21,000 and represented a handsome $12,000 profit, not to mention Harry's $1,600 savings accounts chunked together from dividends...
...stops his headlong pace to speak or idle with his office staff, lunches hurriedly in the executive dining room before closeting himself for the afternoon with executives to discuss problems ("Let's start from the Garden of Eden and work this through"). Each evening he takes home a portfolio of work-and expects other G.E. executives to do the same...