Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he publicly announced his intention to shake off mediocrity or die, then fought so bravely that he was awarded the ears and tails of his bulls. After that the rewards of bullring success came quickly. He had money in the bank, flashy cars, a portfolio of apartment-house investments and the close friendship of some of Hollywood's most famed and beautiful matador collectors...
...months ago sharp-tongued, devious V. K. Krishna Menon was probably the most widely disliked man in India. Even his colleagues considered him insufferably arrogant, and too clever by far. When Jawaharlal Nehru decided to make him a Minister without Portfolio, some of India's top politicians fought a bitter rearguard action against the appointment. When Menon voted against a U.N. resolution calling for withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary, India rang with demands for his expulsion from public life. But last week, when Krishna Menon was sworn in as India's Minister of Defense-a job previously...
...civil war, Sukarno proclaimed a "state of siege and war," asked his dissident military commanders to confer with him in Djakarta. As the colonels began winging in, hapless Premier Sastroamidjojo drove up to the presidential palace on a humid tropical night and handed his chief, from a thin blue portfolio, his resignation. To try to put together another government, Sukarno named the little-known head of Sastroamidjojo's Nationalist Party, an ex-mayor of Djakarta named Suwirjo...
...Antonio Giron, an ambitious orator who has been a Cabinet member for 16 of his 44 years, was dropped; militant Falange Chief José Luis de Arrese was shifted to the Ministry of Housing; José Solis Ruiz, the new secretary general of the party, was made minister without portfolio. The Falange was furious, called these changes an attempt to deal the party "a death blow." To appease the hotheads, Franco fired the most violently partisan of the Monarchists, Fernando Súarez de Tangil, Count of Vallellano, but at the same time strengthened the position of other Monarchists...
...Getty because the father disapproved of his marital escapades. Nevertheless, Getty persuaded his mother to wager the family's stake on the chance of becoming an oil major-leaguer by buying into oil companies. He took over the Pacific Western Oil Corp., then liquidated its $12 million investment portfolio, sold some of its leases, and borrowed heavily to raise cash for bigger game. Quietly he bought shares in the big Tidewater Oil Co. at depression prices...