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"old-boy network" Definitions
  1. an exclusive network that links members of a profession, social class, or organization or the alumni of a particular school through which the individuals assist one another in business, politics, etc.
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The old-boy network has affected other departments, to be sure.
Whether or not this portends a new day for the old-boy network -- well, we will see.
Her Lewis Carroll-like millinery made her instantly recognizable in the old-boy network of Kentucky bourbons.
"The FBI has intentionally allowed the Good Old Boy Network to flourish unrestrained at the FBI Academy," alleges the suit.
"The FBI has intentionally allowed the Good Old Boy Network to flourish unrestrained at the FBI Academy," the lawsuit reads.
It was all part of "an unwholesome old-boy network," the Paris police chief, Michel Delpuech, told Parliament on Monday.
Yes, the system was prone to all sorts of abuses, ranging from discrimination to an old-boy network of friends helping friends.
"Through passive tolerance, the FBI has intentionally allowed the Good Old Boy Network to flourish unrestrained at the FBI Academy," the suit says.
"He was the John Gotti of that good-old-boy network," said Scott Smith, a former district manager in Arizona and other parts of the country.
They passed her over for Dan Donovan, then the Staten Island district attorney, and she griped publicly about a old-boy network that rewarded political connections.
The issuance of the rule was just one jurist's effort to chip away at the traditional old-boy network that has dominated the legal profession for decades.
His go-getter characters infiltrated the old-boy network, wore the gray flannel suit, and toiled away before finally, in midlife, grabbing the brass ring and coasting for home.
Republicans railed against the Democratic leadership as a patronage-ridden, good-old-boy network, and few did so more vehemently than Mr. Hubbard, an executive in the broadcasting and media business.
Sixteen women have sued the FBI, accusing the bureau of gender discrimination in the training process and encouraging a "Good Old Boy Network" within the organizational culture, according to NBC News.
He asked Otting if he believes an "old-boy network in hiring" benefits white men like themselves, and noted that the vast majority of Senate Banking Committee members were white men.
"I think young women are a very visual, but also functional, embodiment of a rebuke of basically New York's old-boy network," Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview at Ms. Biaggi's party.
As companies seek to dismantle anything resembling an old boy network and columnists call for the abolition of legacy college admissions, why would they not extend this same concern to those seeking the White House?
The suit, based on accounts from current and former FBI employees, alleges that women at the FBI's Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia, faced disadvantages and harsher scrutiny as a result of a "good old boy network" at the facility.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is challenging Japan's old-boy network in the capital, where she thrashed a ruling party rival to win her post and now aims to lead reform-minded candidates to victory in a city-wide July election.
WASHINGTON — Women who were once F.B.I. recruits sued the bureau on Wednesday, accusing it of running a "good-old-boy network" at its training academy that discriminates against women, in some cases because of race and disabilities in addition to gender, and sets them up to fail.
They have built a good-old-boy network to help them continue the longest-running con job the West has ever seen, selling the destruction of the West and the elimination or despoliation of our nation's public lands as mere collateral damage in their own get-rich-quick schemes.
Given that Joe was a sergeant in the R.A.F. during World War II and supposedly in his mid-20s (making Alice a shockingly old 35), the movie appears to be set around 1950 — a period when Britain's postwar Labour government put the nation's old boy network on the defensive.
"Stephanie Rader was a trailblazer for women in the 'old boy network' at the OSS, and we can find no legitimate reason why this commendation was denied, other than the pervasive gender discrimination which existed in the early days of the American intelligence community right after World War II," Warner said.
This western good-old-boy network is spearheaded by the oil industry, front groups aligned with the Koch brothers to create the illusion of grassroots opposition, ranchers and far-right county commissioners, some of whom were jailed for leading illegal and destructive off-road vehicle rallies into sensitive, artifact-rich canyons.
The Old Boy Network is a British comedy television series which first aired on ITV in 1992.Newcomb p.1303 Created by the writing team of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it is a parody of various spy films and series.
Leijona ja kyyhky. Helsingissä: Otava. Kekkonen used his power extensively to nominate ministers and railroaded new government compositions through the parliamentary process. Publicly and with impunity, he also used the old boy network to bypass the government and communicate directly with high officials.
On one hand, many people in the community are not used to having a woman in a position of power, which makes her job as sheriff somewhat more difficult, but, on the other hand, her relative independence from the old-boy network of local law enforcement makes it easier for her to clean house there as needed.
Many ex-pupils, like those from other schools, had, and still have, a nostalgic affection for their old schools (George Orwell remembered being "interested and happy" at Eton,Buddicom, Jacintha. Eric and Us. Finlay Publisher. 2006: p. 58) and a public school tie and an "old boy network" of former pupils were useful in advancing a career.
According to author Ben Macintyre, who wrote a book on Philby, it is possible that Philby was allowed to flee to Moscow to avoid an embarrassing trial; and he records suspicions that a typical British Establishment old boy network had intervened for the mutual convenience of MI6 and Philby. Philby himself also speculated that this was the case, according to Macintyre.
An old school tie or old boys tie is a tie that, on leaving school, former pupils are entitled to wear. They will be in their old school or old-boy society colours. According to protocol, it may only be worn by former pupils. This symbol can be a discreet passport to the old boy network, and such ties can be an indication of one's social standing.
John Harrold is a former mayor of Glendora, California. Harrold was elected to the Glendora City Council in 1999 and became mayor in 2001. He was voted out in a recall election in 2002.L.A. Times, 2002, Recall Campaign Jolts Glendora Ever since getting recalled from the city council, Harrold has been very active in criticizing the new city council, with the reason being that they are a "shadowy but venal old-boy network".
A milder form of cronyism is an "old boy network", in which appointees to official positions are selected only from a closed and exclusive social network – such as the alumni of particular universities – instead of appointing the most competent candidate. Seeking to harm enemies becomes corruption when official powers are illegitimately used as means to this end. For example, trumped-up charges are often brought up against journalists or writers who bring up politically sensitive issues, such as a politician's acceptance of bribes.
In 1992 he appeared in episodes of Love Hurts and The Old Boy Network. Then in 1993 he appeared in two comedies on BBC, with the role of Colin in three episodes of Birds of a Feather and he also appeared in an episode of One Foot in the Grave. His second film came in 1994 playing Peters in Shopping. He followed this in 1995 with appearances in two more British sitcoms, on the BBC, The Detectives and Goodnight Sweetheart.
Granted special emergency powers to conduct his investigation, Lebel does everything possible to uncover the Jackal's identity. He first calls upon his "old boy network" of foreign intelligence and police contacts to inquire if they have any records of a top-class political assassin. Most of the inquiries are fruitless, but in the United Kingdom, the inquiry is eventually passed on to the Special Branch of Scotland Yard, and another veteran detective, Superintendent Bryn Thomas. A search through Special Branch's records turns up nothing.
An official function is either an event, such as a convention, that has an official purpose for one's employment, vocation or profession-whether run by a person, institution or governmental agency-or an official duty. Attending events with official purposes is one of the duties of many persons in many organizations. Attending such events fall into categories of networking, protocol, information gathering, among others. Networking may involve an economic network, an entrepreneurial network, an old boy network, a social network, and a value network.
An old boy network (also known as old boys' network, old boys' club, or old boys' society) can refer to social and business connections among former pupils of male-only elite schools. The term originated from much of the British upper-class having attended certain public schools as boys, thus former pupils are "old boys". This can apply to the network between the graduates of a single school regardless of their gender. It is also known as an old boys' society and is similar to an alumni association.
He was also President of the Lord's Taverners cricketing charity in 1956. In 1979 he appeared in an edition of The Old Boy Network, doing his stand-up routine and presenting a condensed history of his life and career. Using a wheelchair after a stroke in 1986, he made his final television appearance in I Like The Girls Who Do recalling his contemporary Max Miller. Always a favourite with the Royal family (he made six appearances in Royal Variety Performances between 1945 and 1980), he was appointed a CBE in 1975.
Following the Paris Commune and disintegration of the French left in the early 1870s, anarchist pedagogue Paul Robin turned to education reform. While teaching French at the Woolwich Royal Military Academy, developed his ideas through the rest of the decade, just as France began a turn towards a free, compulsory, and secular education system. Robin became the supervisor of the Prévost orphanage in Cempuis in December 1880. He received the offer through the old boy network: his friend James Guillaume asked head of primary education Ferdinand Buisson to find Robin a position.
Each candidate for Fellowship or Foreign Membership is nominated by two Fellows of the Royal Society (a proposer and a seconder), who sign a certificate of proposal. Previously, nominations required at least five fellows to support each nomination by the proposer, which was criticised for supposedly establishing an old-boy network and elitist gentlemen's club. The certificate of election (see for example) includes a statement of the principal grounds on which the proposal is being made. There is no limit on the number of nominations made each year.
Some elite university-preparatory boarding schools for students from age 13 to 18 are seen by sociologists as centers of socialization for the next generation of the political upper class and reproduces an elitist class system. This attracts families who value power and hierarchy for the socialization of their family members. These families share a sense of entitlement to social class or hierarchy and power. Boarding schools are seen by certain families as centres of socialization where students mingle with others of similar social hierarchy to form what is called an old boy network.
Powell advocated the privatisation of the Post Office and the telephone network as early as 1964, over 20 years before the latter actually took place; and 47 years before the former occurred. He both scorned the idea of "consensus politics" and wanted the Conservative Party to become a modern business-like party, freed from its old aristocratic and "old boy network" associations. In his 1958 resignation over public spending and what he saw as an inflationary economic policy, he anticipated almost exactly the views that during the 1980s came to be described as "monetarism".
Until the 1970s Britain featured a tight-knit political class that emerged from upper-class families whose sons came to know each other at elite "public schools" (like Eton College and Harrow School) and the "old boy" network, based on Oxford and Cambridge, which dominates public life. After 1970, however, the political class became much more open in terms of the social origins of British politicians and top civil servants. Conservative Members of Parliament (MPs) increasingly include those educated at non-elite schools and are of modest social backgrounds. Labour MPs, in turn, are increasingly middle class, white- collar and university educated.
Along with several other Old Salopians, including Willie Rushton, Ingrams founded Private Eye in 1962, taking over the editorship from Christopher Booker in 1963. It was a classic case, he claimed on Desert Island Discs in 2008, of the "old boy network". Private Eye was part of the satire boom of the early 1960s, which included the television show That Was The Week That Was, for which Ingrams wrote, and The Establishment nightclub, run by Peter Cook. When Private Eye ran into financial problems Cook was able to gain a majority shareholding on the proceeds of his brief but financially successful venture.
The Parkes Radio Telescope, completed in 1961, was the brainchild of E. G. "Taffy" Bowen, chief of the CSIRO's Radiophysics Laboratory. During the Second World War, he had worked on radar development in the United States and had made connections in its scientific community. Calling on this old boy network, he persuaded two philanthropic organisations, the Carnegie Corporation and the Rockefeller Foundation, to fund half the cost of the telescope. It was this recognition and key financial support from the United States that persuaded Australian prime minister, Robert Menzies, to agree to fund the rest of the project.
Bishop's College School, a private secondary school founded in 1836 in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada owns an Old boy network. Former male students are referred as BCS Old Boys and former King's Hall & female students are referred as Old Girls. BCS's sister school King's Hall founded in 1872 in Compton, Québec merged with BCS in 1972. The official charter of the Bishop's College School BCS Alumni Association was granted in 1901 and the Heneker-Williams Society has been created by the board of directors of the BCS Association to honour individuals who, by leadership and example, have set the standard for volunteer support of Bishop's College School and King's Hall, Compton.
Nepotism and the old-boy-network is a central theme. Anthony's family background is not one of wealth or privilege – his mother is a single parent trying to bring up two sons on a teacher's salary, and his bohemian father lives in a squat – and his lack of money for going out to restaurants or taking taxis means he is constantly at odds with his girlfriend. Although brilliant – he got a first-class degree – it was from a red-brick university, not Oxbridge, and he hadn't been to a public school. The Pupil became the foundation of the Caper Court series, which at present comprises eight novels.
Then Levett was tapped as a judge for the new colony and granted large tracts of land at the insistence of Oswald and his brother-in-law Tonyn.The Papers of Henry Laurens, Henry Laurens, Philip May Hamer, David R. Chesnutt, South Carolina Historical Society, University of South Carolina Press, 1968 Oswald encouraged Governor James Grant to set aside prime acreage for his "worthy friend" Levett, to whom Oswald said he owed "particular obligations." A recipient of the largesse of the initial old boy network, Levett built his Julianton Plantation on today's St. Johns River.English Plantations on the St. Johns River, Florida History Online, University of Florida, unf.
The Federal City Council has a longstanding unofficial policy of avoiding press attention and publicity, although in 2016 executive director Anthony Williams said that the group would be implementing some incremental changes to its policy of avoiding the press. The group's media-avoidance policy has been characterized in various ways. The Economist described it in 1988 as a "select and shadowy gathering of some of the city's top business and professional people", "[o]perating on the old-boy network". In 1997, reporter Bradford McKee called the organization "secretive" and "a shadow chamber of commerce and phantom government..." In 2014, Jonathan O'Connell at The Washington Post called it "historically insular".
They run a national "alternative" Old Boy Network that aims to create privilege for people without privilege and counter the myth that universities, and in particular arts degrees, are the domain of the middle and upper classes. Their volunteers come from TV, film, music, art, fashion, academia, law, architecture, activism, comedy, social work, journalism, publishing, design, activism and theatre. Members include the journalists Polly Toynbee and Laurie Penny; artist duo Jake & Dinos Chapman, authors Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore, poet Scroobius Pip, comedians Stephen K Amos, Stewart Lee and Shappi Khorsandi. Working with a trained mentor for one year, students pursue a personal goal and explore options in Higher Education and the creative and professional worlds.
It can also mean a network of social and business connections among the alumni of various prestigious schools. In popular language, old boy network or old boys' society has come to be used in reference to the preservation of social elites in general; such connections within the British Civil Service formed a primary theme in the British Broadcasting Corporation's satirical comedy series Yes Minister. The phrase "It's not what you know, it's who you know" is associated with this tradition. Mostly in the Southern United States, the term good ol' boy has a slightly different, often derogatory meaning—a friendly, unambitious, relatively uneducated white man who embodies the stereotype of the folksy culture of the South.
Miles "Bo" Beaufort (Brian Protheroe) is a rich "blue blood" financier who comes from a wealthy upper-class family. Mike Savage (Nicholas Clay) is a self-made businessman from a more modest family background, who likes adventure. The two are old enemies, and when Savage returns from a stay in Africa (fleeing from a coup with a fortune in bonds), he chooses to settle with his wife Sandy (Claire Oberman) and daughters in the affluent Hampshire village of Hunton Magna, in a Georgian mansion that is next door to Beaufort's home. Unhappy about his new neighbour, especially when he joins his local cricket club, Beaufort schemes and uses the old boy network to hamper Savage's plans whenever possible.
Her first acting role was in the film Superman IV: The Quest for Peace in 1987. During the late 1980s, she worked for a while in Great Britain, appearing in The Old Boy Network, a single season ITV comedy series about three ex-spies who set up as private investigators after the end of the Cold War. Brook went on to appear in numerous film and television roles, first as Carolyn in the 1991 film Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, a starring role in the spring 1993 ABC network version of Sirens, a guest star for a three-episode arc of L.A. Law and in the 1995 film Bye Bye Love. She also had a small part as a child's mother in Kindergarten Cop (1990).
When this took effect in January 2000, it quickly resulted in greatly increased volume on the busway and protests from bus riders and prior carpoolers. Solis at first defended the change, but it continued to have a detrimental effect on the busway and did not improve flow in the regular traffic lanes. By May, she was co-sponsoring legislation to rescind the change and restore the higher occupancy requirement, which passed and took effect in July 2000. Due to her work in overcoming obstacles for environmental justice, in 2000 Solis was given the Profile in Courage Award by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, and was praised as "a politician who hasn't shied away from challenging the old boy network both within and without the Latino community".
Goldschmidt won a seat on the Portland City Council in 1970. As City Commissioner (1971–1973) and later as Mayor of Portland (1973–1979), Goldschmidt participated in the revitalization of the downtown section of that city. He led a freeway revolt against the unpopular Mount Hood Freeway, building consensus among labor unions and other powerful entities to divert Federal funds initially earmarked for the freeway to other projects, ultimately expanding the federal funds brought to the region to include the MAX Light Rail line and the Portland Transit Mall. He is widely credited with opening up the city's government to neighborhood activists and minorities, appointing women and African-Americans in a City Hall that had been dominated by an "old-boy network".
Annie Lambert (born 3 January 1946) is a British actress, best known to fans of the science fiction television series Doctor Who for her role as Enlightenment in the 1982 serial Four to Doomsday. She grew up in East Sussex and her first work in London was as a fashion assistant at Vogue, but several of the photographers she worked with persuaded her to sit for them, and she soon moved into acting. She is the younger sister of Kit Lambert, who was the manager of The Who. Her other TV credits include: The Sweeney, Space: 1999, The New Avengers, All Creatures Great and Small, Bluebell, Inspector Morse, Rockliffe's Babies, Howards' Way, Lovejoy, Minder, Making News, The Old Boy Network, Westbeach and 2point4 Children.
Television comedy series which he produced or directed included: As Time Goes By, May to December, Last of the Summer Wine, Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, Ever Decreasing Circles, Brush Strokes, Open All Hours, The Old Boy Network, Butterflies, Ripping Yarns, Porridge, Going Straight, Broaden Your Mind, the final series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, The Liver Birds, Up Pompeii! and Sykes and A.... A sketch in At Last The 1948 Show in which four exactly alike men all called Sydney Lotterby ("The Four Sydney Lotterbies") was written by John Cleese, because he liked the name. The men were played by Cleese, Marty Feldman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Graham Chapman. Cleese also gave the name to the character played by Robert Lindsay in Fierce Creatures (1997).
In April 1990 a writer called Robert Harbinson (also known as Robin Bryans) stated in the Dublin-based magazine Now that Lord Mountbatten, Anthony Blunt and others were all involved in an old-boy network which held gay orgies in country houses on both sides of the Irish border, as well as at the Kincora Boys' Home. Harbinson sent letters and postcards to the rich and powerful in British establishment circles but once the postcards began to circulate there were complaints to the police and Harbinson was warned that he would be prosecuted for criminal libel.Chris Moore, The Kincora Scandal, Marino Books (1996) An example of his letter-writing style is copied here. The Belfast News Letter reported that files on Kincora were "conspicuously absent" from the routine January 2013 release of 1982 government papers by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) under the 30-year rule.
General Andrew McNaughton BCS'01 Despite the small size of its student population, no less than twenty former students have been inducted into the Order of Canada, ten to the Distinguished Service Order, five to the Order of the British Empire & Order of the Bath, three to the National Order of Quebec & Order of St Michael and St George, two to the Order of Ontario and one Royal Victorian Order. At least seven have been named to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and seven BCS-ers have been named Rhodes Scholars. The Charter of the Old Boys Association of BCS (an Old boy network) was officially granted on page 295, Chap 93 of the Statue de la province de Québec in 1901, and later changed to the BCS Alumni Association after the merger with KHC. The Heneker-Williams society honours people who, by leadership and example, have set the standard for volunteer support of BCS and KHC.
In the United Kingdom, the "old boy network" is seen as existing primarily among those educated at the fee- paying independent schools (public schools) of the Eton Group and the Rugby Group including, but not limited to, Harrow School, Eton College, Shrewsbury School, Stowe School, Charterhouse School, Westminster School, Winchester College, Radley College, Wellington College, and Rugby School, as well as at the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, although to some extent such networks exist for all institutions producing large numbers of "old boys" and girls. The existence of "old boy" networks is often blamed for the high proportion of former pupils of high-status schools and universities in high-status positions in government, business, and other professions. For instance, between them, Harrow and Eton have 26 British prime ministers among their old boys. In practice, attendance at certain educational institutions is typical of the British "ruling class" and upper middle class, and where nepotism exists it may be driven more often by personal relationships than by educational networks.
Dean Harris (born 30 December 1946) is an English actor. He began working "in the round" in 1966, in weekly and fortnightly repertory theatres across the United Kingdom, Canada and Zimbabwe. His two West End appearances are Judas in Godspell opposite Robert Lindsay at Wyndham's Theatre (1974) and Dadda Kemp in Entertaining Mr Sloane opposite Alison Steadman at The Arts (2001). Harris has appeared in 50 television comedies and dramas and has played opposite Peter Cushing in Sherlock Holmes, Jack Warner in Dixon of Dock Green, Dennis Waterman in The Sweeney, Judi Dench in As Time Goes By, Jasper Carrot and Robert Powell in The Detectives, John Thaw in Mirch, James Bolam in Second Thoughts, Tom Conti in Old Boy Network, Adam Faith in Love Hurts, David Jason in Diamond Geezer, Warren Clarke in The Case of the Frightened Lady, Anthony Andrews in Ivanhoe, Eric Sykes in If You Go Down in the Woods Today, Michael Kitchen in Home Run, Larry Lamb in Fool's Gold and Bill Paterson in The Interrogation of John.
In 1950 Nat appeared on television in the programme The Symbol of Entertainment Supreme made from extracts of shows running in Blackpool at the time, including the revue Out of this World at the Opera House with Nat. Although he made many appearances on radio and television, the only time Nat Jackley had his own show on television was with the pair of specials Nat's in the Belfry on BBC TV in 1956. In 1957 he appeared in a film for television Revels of 1957 composed of sections of Blackpool shows of the time. Nat appeared on television in The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour film in 1967 as Happy Nat the Rubber Man,; Jingle Bells a Play for Today (1973), the one-off Thames special Bentine (1975), Angels (1976), Talent (1979), The Spoils of War (1980), Tales of the Unexpected, A Midsummer Night's Dream as Snout,; ; The Old Boy Network as himself, and Dancing Country a BBC2 Playhouse presentation in 1981, the series The Chinese Detective (1982), the series Juliet Bravo in 1983, Threads (1984), the series Dramarama and Minder in 1985, and Lizzie's Pictures in 1987.

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