Word: baton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...podium, the short, dignified man with the spiky beard would kick, lunge, shout and. in moments of intense excitement, occasionally throw his baton...
...Orleans had been left alone, token racial integration ordered for two of the city's elementary schools would have proceeded last year with a minimum of disorder. But in Baton Rouge, cowboy-songster Governor Jimmie H. Davis cranked the Louisiana legislature into paroxysms of racist sentiment, and it spewed out masses of bills aimed at grabbing control of the city's whole school system and cutting off pay to teachers at the integrated schools. The Federal District Court fought back with armloads of restraining orders, finally enjoined some 700 state officials, including the Governor and the entire legislature...
Rathbone got his interest in oil from his oilman father. Born in Parkersburg, W. Va., he served a short hitch in the Army before graduating from Lehigh University ('21), then went to work as an engineering draftsman in the Baton Rouge refinery of Standard Oil of Louisiana, a Jersey affiliate. He was made refinery manager when he was only 32, so impressed headquarters that four years later he was moved up to president of the affiliate...
...problem was the rabble-rousing Governor, Huey Long. To win votes, Huey taxed Standard so heavily that it shut down its Baton Rouge refinery. When 8,000 jobless workers assembled to march on the capital with pistols and hunting rifles, Long quickly suspended the tax. Later, Long suddenly boosted Standard's taxes $20 million, summoned Rathbone. When Long, always trying to infiltrate Standard, asked for a job for a pal, Rathbone insisted that he would take him for a 30-day trial, keep him only if he worked out well. Long canceled the tax on the spot...
...shares of Jersey Standard stock (current value: $699,611) and has options to buy 10,000 more. He and his wife live alone (his two children are married) in a ten-room Tudor-style house in Summit, N.J., and have a 30-acre farm 25 miles outside Baton Rouge. There he changes pace from his favorite sport, golf (in the 90s), gets in some duck shooting in the nearby marshes...