Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earthy, plain-spoken businessman who has lived in Chicago all his adult life, Johnson, 50, is less the brilliant innovator than a shrewd judge of the Negro community. He has been careful not to get too far ahead of the times-or too far behind. He started Ebony, he said in his prospectus, "to emphasize the brighter side of Negro life and success." As the darker side has come more into view, Ebony has adjusted. Last winter, Senior Editor Lerone Bennett Jr. provoked considerable controversy and a stern rebuttal from the New York Times when he wrote an article debunking...
Garrison promised to name names, make arrests and get convictions. He did just that-or at least he began. He arrested Clay Shaw, a retired bachelor businessman well known at several levels of New Orleans society, high and low. Shaw, Garrison said, was really one Clay Bertrand, whose name cropped up in the Warren Report. As Bertrand, he said, Shaw had met with three men, including one Leon Oswald, and conspired to kill President Kennedy...
...even the limited role described by Fortas troubled many, including liberal friends. He admitted, for instance, that 21 months after donning the judicial robes, he had called a businessman friend, Ralph Lazarus, chairman of the board of Federated Department Stores, to chide him for questioning Administration estimates of war spending. Fortas refused to say whether Johnson had instigated the call, thereby leaving the impression that...
...delegates to the Democratic National Convention. "What it boils down to," says Democratic Congressional Candidate Charles Weltner, "is a weird perversion of the one-man, one-vote doctrine wherein one man has one vote, and that man is Lester Maddox." John Howett, an Emory University professor, and Businessman Richard Marsh filed suit charging that they are "thwarted from participation in the democratic process at its place of quintessence...
...country, the Bacchus police arrested Ferrari and his associates and seized 10,000 tons of adulterated wine. For more than ten years Vino Ferrari had been a household name in Italy. A popular Ferrari commercial-which was taken off the air when Ferrari was arrested-showed a tired businessman reviving his sagging spirits after a hard day by knocking back a glass of Ferrari wine. "I'm a new man," he shouts to his wife...