Word: accesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...person were denied access to such a public place, his remedy would be to file a civil suit asking a federal court to order the proprietors to cease such discrimination. Also the Attorney General could file such a suit on behalf of the U.S. Where state or local laws ban such discrimination, the Attorney General would have to give state or local officials "reasonable time" to act before filing suit. The Attorney General could, if he wished, use the services of local agencies to seek a voluntary solution. But if he decided that any delay would "adversely affect the interests...
...General could not institute such suits for individuals. He could ask the court, however, to permit him to "intervene" in such cases. If granted, that would mean that federal attorneys would help to argue the case. But if the Attorney General could demonstrate a community pattern of denying free access to public accommodations, he could file a federal suit, set forth his facts, seek a court order against specific proprietors whom he considered part of the pattern...
...Access to Power. Wall Street's grapevine brought word of their search to the tenth-floor corner office of Merrill Lynch's chairman, Michael W. McCarthy. He and Merrill Lynch's directors made a unique proposal to Devine's partners: Why not buy up a large chunk of Merrill Lynch's undistributed stock and join the company? After a fortnight of secret negotiations, the two houses agreed on Wall Street's biggest deal this year. Thirteen of the Devine partners anted up $8,000,000 and were taken into Merrill Lynch as a division...
...sweeter deal could scarcely be imagined. The Devine partners got access to the power of Merrill Lynch, whose assets top $1 billion; in addition, all 13 of the men became vice presidents of the brokerage giant (raising its total to 114). As for Merrill Lynch, it acquired the savvy, contacts and good will of a major company without putting up so much as a penny...
Easy Scrapping. Biographer Magnus, who had access to several collections of unpublished papers, is most convincing when he is discussing the intricacies of Edwardian social life. He is on less firm ground when he tries to demonstrate that Bertie helped shape his country's foreign policy in the first decade of the century. After the death of Victoria, who never trusted her son with Foreign Office dispatches, Bertie became an ardent practitioner of personal diplomacy, paying "unofficial" visits to the capitals of Europe, where he practiced his charm on rulers, most of whom were his relatives. Magnus credits...