Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the moment last July when Chicago Businessman Charles Harting Percy, 44, announced that he would try for the Illinois Republican gubernatorial nomination, he ran as if he were pursued by a pack of bright young men and an angry board of directors. Years of high-speed climbing in corporate life had conditioned him well. At 23 he was a board member of Chicago's camera-making Bell & Howell Co., at 29 he was president, at 41 board chairman. As it turned out, Chuck Percy's pace was well suited to politics too. Last week...
...picked up strong financial support from business friends, set out to cover the state in a bus dubbed the "Chuckwagon" that he filled with his wife, five kids and an eight-piece band. He plugged economic development as Illinois' most pressing need, argued that he, as a businessman, could best find ways to create 800,000 new jobs needed in the state...
...ALABAMA. Two years ago, the Republicans had moribund organizations in ten of Alabama's 67 counties. Thanks to Gadsden Businessman James Mar tin's near victory in 1962 over Democratic Senator Lister Hill and to the efforts of Republican State Chairman John Grenier, the G.O.P. now has organizations in 63 counties, plans to put up candidates for all eight congressional seats in 1964. Martin stands a good chance of winning one of them...
...plot than in the smoky tang of Irish talk and in the embalmment of a cast of characters as Stereotyped as Mrs. O'Leary's cow-Father McGovern, an octogenarian priest who rejoices fiercely every time a parishioner precedes him to the grave; Al Gottlieb, a Jewish businessman who prattles like a borscht-circuit comic...
...businessman who hopes to prevent the Harvard Cooperation Society from building a four-story annex on Palmer St. will carry his fight to the Cambridge Board of Zoning Appeal today...