Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Room for Stumbles. Brooklyn-born Fred Borch takes over a giant (200,000 products, 211 plants) in remarkably good shape. The major credit goes to Ralph Cordiner, who succeeded Charles E. ("Electric Charlie") Wilson as chief executive in 1950 and promptly ordered the most drastic reorganization in G.E.'s 71-year history. Cordiner did not radically change the product mix, which is spread almost equally among heavy electrical equipment, electronics, consumer goods and defense orders (G.E. is the fifth biggest defense contractor). But he decentralized operations and management, making each of 112 department managers a minor president with responsibility...
...think this was coming for a long time--ever since Walter O'Malley had decided his boys were too good for the low rent district of Brooklyn. At the time of the Great Desertion, of course, the Dodgers were no better than their neighborhood...
There are those who consider today's political activism a rebirth of the 1930's. On a schoolbus traveling to the Washington March for Jobs and Freedom, I sat behind a curious father and son team. A Brooklyn printer, the man had been a socialist in the 1930's. He was glad to be active once again. His 17 year old son is already a member of the Young Peoples Socialist League. Together their enthusiasm for the march for its own sake reminded me of the days when my father used to take me to see the Yankees play ball...
...Washington a House Judiciary subcommittee approved its own version of President Kennedy's civil rights bill. It expanded and even liberalized the Administration's package. Under the leadership of Brooklyn's civil-rights drumbeating Congressman Emanuel Celler, the committee added a provision for a powerful FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Commission); ballooned the public-accommodations clause beyond Administration-set limits to include almost every establishment offering goods and services to the public; greatly expanded the injunctive powers requested for the Attorney General; boosted voting-rights guarantees to include not only antidiscrimination in federal elections but in state voting...
...wife how to cook while he established a number of eateries in The Bronx and its summertime extension, the Catskills. Son Hyman was bending over hot stoves before he reached his teens, and he has accumulated the most impressive library of cookbooks in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, where he now lives. "My repertoire is catholic," he says. "I cook in Japanese, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, as well as American...