Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PAUL S. SCHUELLER Brooklyn...
...substitute clause is that it would permit other owners to make two discriminatory transactions in a single year, but would make a third such sale illegal; large-scale real estate operators would thus find it difficult to segregate big apartments or tracts. Almost apologetically, Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn noted afterward: "All good legislation is the result of compromise. The bill without the Mathias amendment would be like having a wine cellar without a corkscrew...
When asked to name the fastest rising Negro businessman in the U.S., many Negro leaders answer as quickly as they can say Jackie Robinson. The former Brooklyn baseball demigod, now greying and widening at 47, holds high executive positions in a bank, an insurance company and a professional football team, also earns money as a popular speaker at Jewish community centers (usual subject: how minority groups can help each other) and as an accomplished political aide...
...TIME, Jan. 28). Though his title is mostly honorific and the position pays him only $6,000 yearly, Robinson spends three mornings a week at the bank, also attends monthly board meetings. His other major business activity is as general manager, executive vice president and board member of the Brooklyn Football Dodgers in the Continental League. His main chore is to persuade rookies to sign up, and he has had remarkable success among Negroes...
Leon Shimkin, a voluble and supremely confident Brooklyn bookkeeper who rose to become a major force in the publishing business, delights in inventing words. One of his favorites is "bookazine," meaning a soft-cover book marketed like a magazine. Putting that word to work, Shimkin and three other men in 1939 founded his Pocket Books, Inc., the world's most voluminous softback-book producer, with an annual sale of $20 million from its 20% slice of the mass paperback market in the U.S. Another Shimkin word is "biblio-therapeutic," meaning books that help people. With such books, notably Dale...