Word: rowlands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abroad." Lamented New York Daily News Columnist Ted Lewis: "The most marked difference between the Johnson Administration and others in our lifetime is the lack of trustworthy news leaks as to what is in the works at the presidential level." On Manhattan's TV Channel 13, Columnist Rowland Evans demanded: "Whose purpose is served by this curious shying away from the press?" Evans' answer: "The only conceivable beneficiary is the President himself...
...that one governor, Montagu Norman, almost singlehanded brought down the Labor government in 1931 by publicly criticizing its extravagant policies. Since then, little love has been lost between Labor's leaders and the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. Last week the bank's current governor, George Rowland Stanley Baring, the third Earl of Cromer, stirred Britain and shocked Labor with the sternest public lecture on economy yet issued by a public servant under the Wilson government. The tough talk showed the considerable extent to which British politics are being influenced by the country's bankers...
...behind Lonrho's restless expansion is Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, 46, a 180-lb. six-footer who began his career as a porter in a London railway station, emigrated to Southern Rhodesia in 1948 and built a fortune from a Mercedes franchise and mineral speculation. In 1961 he traded his motor and mining assets for 30% of the stock of Lonrho, became a joint managing director with Chairman Alan Ball. Ever since, he has been flying around Africa in a twin-engine Beechcraft, persuading the established and emerging nations to do business with Lonrho, acquiring such diverse enterprises...
Sensitivity & Smiles. Rowland's continent-sized expansion of Lonrho has created the inevitable comparisons between him and Empire Builder Rhodes, whose goal it was to bring all Africa under British domination. Although he is an admirer of Rhodes, Rowland makes it clear to Africa's sensitive new leaders that he craves only a business empire. "I'm not at all interested in politics," he says, "only in doing business." He has associated himself with Black Africa's economic aspirations, underwritten nationalistic-development schemes. During Malawi's independence celebrations last July, Rowland smiled tolerantly from...
...cast by Jack Straus's forebears. Straus is descended from a line of German-Jewish traders who at the turn of the century paid $1,645,000 to buy Macy's, a thriving store that had been founded in 1858 by a onetime Yankee whaler named Rowland Hussey Macy. Straus's grandfather Isidor was a legendary merchant who started Macy's on its road to fame, later went down with the Titanic rather than get into a lifeboat while women and children were still aboard. Jack's father, Jesse Isidor, spread Macy...