Word: bankers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boats and swimming pools; in California 3% of all boat owners earn less than $5,000. In addition, 25% of all families now own two cars-and the latest trend is to a third. 'There is only so much steak one can eat without getting indigestion," says Boston Banker Richard Chapman. "So it seems only logical that the three-car family and the second television is merely the next step...
Fire the Chairman. Ansett had in creased his fleet to seven planes by the end of World War II, but by then others saw opportunity in the air. The government set up Trans-Australia, and a private firm formed Australian National Airways. When the banker who served as Ansett's board chairman suggested that he sell out to competing Australian National, Ansett fired him, eventually bought out A.N.A. himself for $6,700,000. When the government ordered him to raise fares along with Trans-Australia, Ansett stubbornly refused and forced a backdown. "I've got a kind...
Once, Negroes controlled Harlem's numbers racket. But, so the story goes, one Harlem policy banker was hit hard during the 1930s and went to Racketeer Dutch Schultz to borrow $5,000. So quickly did he pay it back that Schultz became interested, and before long the big-time mobsters moved in. Now Negroes complain that Italian and Jewish racketeers, protected by the police, control the game, and a Black Nationalist has drawn cheers by calling for "black control of the numbers...
...board of supervisors, which is headed by German Trade Union Federation Boss Ludwig Rosenberg, 61, one of the few Jews now in high positions in Germany, and studded with the names of other labor leaders. The bank is actually run by easygoing President Walter Hesselbach, a professional banker who has never worn a blue collar, usually arrives at work an hour late "so that I don't disturb my colleagues in their morning chat and coffee hour." Such considerate treatment by Hesselbach extends only to his employees. B.F.G.'s hard-pressed competitors have learned that they cannot bank...
...most people, particularly the man who is hit by forces beyond his control." Some worry that beneath his attractive exterior and easygoing manner is a deep, though untapped, vein of authoritarianism. Negro Leader James Farmer said that Goldwater Youth marchers reminded him of the Hitler Jugend, and a German banker in Munich recently told an American acquaintance, "If we give you four or five years, you'll start putting on brown shirts...