Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obviously weird ways, Beckwith still has his defenders in Greenwood. A local fund drive is under way to pay his legal expenses. Declares a Greenwood businessman: "I say the shooting of Evers was a patriotic act. If Delay pulled the trigger that night, he must have felt he was doing it for the South and the state." Says a Beckwith friend: "Beckwith is a Joan of Arc, and his cause is to destroy the evil of forced integration. I don't think he is fit mentally. But Joan of Arc was a little abnormal...
...services ranged up to $140, half of which usually went to Ward, she said: "I have never considered myself a call girl or prostitute." Sometimes when Ward "complained about having no money," Christine testified, she would simply say: "I'll go see Jim." He was a wealthy businessman, who had paid her "hundreds of pounds," but the name might well have been Jack. Profumo also gave her money, "but not for myself; it was for my mother...
Though interpretations will vary with individual tax examiners, and Congress may jiggle the rules later, it looks as if almost any businessman with a sharp pencil, a touch of imagination and the patience to keep detailed records can deduct fairly freely. But few businessmen who cater to the expense-account trade seemed to be overjoyed. "It certainly doesn't do anything for me," grumped Broadway Producer David Merrick. The consensus was that the earlier, tougher proposals for cutbacks on deductions have frightened off many prospective spenders and have given companies an excuse to trim their entertainment budgets. "The major...
...headlines out of the troubled South are dominated by the politicians and demonstrators, but it is often the businessmen who are quietly negotiating the solutions or the compromises. The Southern businessman is wrestling with a crisis of conscience; his emotions say "never" to integration, his civil instincts say "perhaps some day," but his cash registers say "now." The dominant sentiment is expressed by Real Estate Executive Sidney Smyer, chairman of the businessmen's committee that negotiated a truce of sorts in Birmingham: "I'm not an integrationist, but I'm not a damn fool either...
...past fortnight some kind of desegregation has taken place in 98 Southern cities-and predominantly business groups have done most of the local nudging. Says Birmingham Real Estate Man William P. Engel: "You cannot depend on the politicians or the extremists. The businessman must take the leadership...