Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Admitted, Established. A small-time bootlegger with three months at Leavenworth to his credit, Oklahoman Sherman Billingsley had spent Prohibition managing a few New York speakeasies, including one called the Stork Club. When Prohibition ended, Billingsley took the name, and in 1934 set up shop with the dispassionate intent of getting rich off the rich. The idea collided with a need. Once again there were people with money, some of it old, quite a bit of it new, some borrowed, and not too much of it blue-blooded. And many of them craved a place where they could be both...
...scheme Wilcox outlined would work this way: a student would take Ec 1 as his departmental course in the Social Sciences. After that, he could take for Gen Ed course credit only those upper-level Gen Ed courses that had Wilcox did not bar the possibility that these courses might add pre-requisites, but if they did, he "assumed" there would be a certain amount of change in their structure. Ec 1 as a pre-requisite...
Because most upper-level, Gen Ed courses do not now have pre-requisites--are not part of a "sequence" of courses--they would not qualify for Gen Ed credit...
...stolid, generally sunny life of the murdered farm family with the eerie twilight world of the two killers. He limns the small-town Midwest of homemade pies, 4-H meetings and simple pieties. By dramatically re-creating the Clutter family-Father Herbert, who served on the federal Farm Credit Board under Ike; his diffident, withdrawn wife Bonnie; their sturdy teen-age son Kenyon; their engaging teen-age daughter Nancy, the "town darling"-Capote makes clear why a neighbor exclaimed after the murder: "That family represented everything people hereabouts really value and respect, and that such a thing could happen...
...Where Credit Is Due. This troika, powered by loans from the Chase Manhattan and other banks, has bought up or signed exclusive contracts with 500 jobbers. Those who hitch to Bluhdorn's wagon get several advantages: G. & W. gives them national advertising, marketing advice and long-term credits. Most important, it sells wholesale parts made by other manufacturers as well as its own, and promises overnight delivery...