Word: baxter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James P. Baxter III, president of Williams College, praised the aid given to education by business, but agreed with President Pusey that business should contribute more. Baxter shared the speakers' platform with Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter at the annual luncheon of the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research and the Harvard Law School Alumni in the Harkness Commons yesterday...
...Education: Dr. Frank Baxter on station KNXT (Los Angeles), with a citation to CBS's Omnibus for the series on the Adams family...
...Capitol records-Les Baxter's Poor People of Paris and Nelson Riddle's Lisbon Antigua are the No. 1 and No. 2 jukebox favorites in the U.S. Its Sixteen Tons, by Tennessee Ernie, is the fastest selling record in history (1,000,000 in three weeks). Among Billboard's top ten albums, Capitol last week led all other companies with four. In 14 years Capitol has moved from nowhere to fourth place in the industry, just behind the patriarchs: RCA Victor, Columbia, Decca...
...consistency. They refuse to take a campaign, at any price, unless they believe in it. "There is too much personal breakage in this business to do it any other way," says Clem. "You give too much of yourself during a campaign." After they signed up with P.G. & E., Whitaker & Baxter were suspected of selling out to the private power interests. Not at all, says Clem: "The Central Valley Project was not conceived as a power project, but it began to turn into one when the Federal Government stepped in. We were against that, but not the original purpose of C.V.P...
Whitaker & Baxter are deeper than the cliches of liberals and conservatives. When schoolteachers came to them with a mammoth program for increasing school salaries, the teachers told them that big business would oppose the plan because it would increase taxes. Whitaker & Baxter did not agree, and succeeded in lining up the business community behind the teachers. Accosting one corporation president, Clem says, "We asked what his receptionist earned. He said $300 a month. We showed him that the minimum teacher salary at that time was just over $100 a month. He was a man who was always complaining about radicals...