Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Connor, who had lost the election but refused to relinquish power, sent his spies into the Negro community to seek information. Fearing that their phones were tapped, King and his friends worked up a code. He became "J.F.K.," Ralph Abernathy "Dean Rusk," Birmingham Preacher Fred Shuttlesworth "Bull," and Negro Businessman John Drew "Pope John." Demonstrators were called "baptismal candidates," and the whole operation was labeled "Project C"-for "Confrontation...
Died. Jacob J. Shubert, 86, last of the three boys from Syracuse who founded Broadway's theatrical empire; of a stroke; in his Manhattan penthouse atop Sardi's 44th Street restaurant. In the partnership, Older Brother Sam was the producer and Middle Brother Lee the businessman; "J.J." touched both sides of the business, playing backer to Florenz Ziegfeld, producing more than 500 shows, and sending Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Marilyn Miller and Bert Lahr on their way to stardom. Until 1956, when the U.S. Government settled an antitrust suit, the Shuberts controlled half of all U.S. legitimate theaters...
...Some people can't adjust to the atmosphere of betrayal necessary," says Businessman John Moot, president of Games Research. "It's a tradition that women are masterful liars, but I've found that most women playing Diplomacy can't bring themselves to lie, or else they are very bad at it. My wife got extremely upset the first time I doublecrossed her, and now, although she understands it intellectually, she still can't accept a betrayal emotionally...
Price supports prop up the farmer and tax write-offs cushion the new businessman. Property owners are reimbursed for wartime losses sustained at the hands of either the Nazis or the Allies, and there are special payments for war widows as well as to refugees from East Germany. "If you were a nursing mother who had fled from the East, lost your fortune and your husband in the war, and had broken your leg," says one government official, "why, you'd be a millionaire...
...apparently thinks that a self-righteous book will cure his guilt. He argues that, as a writer, he should not have been treated as just another businessman with a more or less predictable income. He had been poor (though during his lean years he paid for a divorce instead of taxes), and when for one year (on the royalties of his gamy novel, Memoirs of Hecate County) he had the income of a small businessman, he should not have been taxed as if his money were an annual affair...