Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accompanied him to a Sunday-morning church service. Kane was treated to some BURNETT-CONTACT Southern hospitality when he joined the Senator and some of his cronies for shrimp jambalaya, poker and stories at the Raleigh antebellum mansion of North Carolina Superior Court Judge Pou Bailey. Kane found the evening "fun but unprofitable": he lost...
...Senate primary campaign against Frank Graham, a widely admired former University of North Carolina president. The slimy tactics, agrees Helms' friend Judge James ("Pou") Bailey, "got clean out of hand." The election is still a sour blotch for North Carolinians; white supremacy had not been an issue since the turn of the century. Helms was a Smith partisan. Graham won the primary, but without a majority, so Smith was entitled to a runoff. He was in no mood for it. "I went on the radio," Helms says, "telling folks that supporters ought to go out to his house and encourage...
...Jefferson had gathered some 60 top advisers, secretaries, chauffeurs and the pilots of the company's jets to celebrate Du Pont's victory in the greatest takeover struggle in American corporate history. Only 160 miles to the north, in Stamford, Conn., Conoco executives met in Chairman Ralph Bailey's office for their own celebration. One vice president walked up to the bar and jocularly ordered, "Seagram's on the rocks...
Those smaller oil firms can be expected to fight just as hard as Conoco to stay out of the hands of the larger energy companies. Said Bailey last week: "Had Mobil been permitted to acquire Conoco, there would have been other such mergers initiated by the major oil companies. A real threat existed that a large number of oil companies in the middle tier, like Conoco, would have been eliminated." Several of those firms, including Cities Service and Marathon, have already arranged their own lines of bank credit to fight off unfriendly takeover attempts...
...performs the grand finale of its Saturday evening juggling show. "Thought you had the good seats, didn't you," shouts Ned Van Alstyne at the closest onlookers. A bit worried, one boy jumps up from his spot on the Brattle Square traffic island and hurries across the street toward Bailey's. Van Alstyne and his partner finish their startling display, extinguish the last flaming baton, and begin circulating their matching black derbies among the applauding crowd of 100 people...