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...entourage claim that the Government secretly sought to strike a deal???offering, if he would go quietly into uniform, to allow him to defend his title regularly and put on boxing exhibitions. A similar arrangement had been worked out for Joe Louis during World War II. The Pentagon last week denied that any such arrangement was ever suggested...
...Make a deal???that is the point. Baker [Senator Howard Baker], as I said, is going to keep at arm's length and you've got to be very firm with these guys or you may not end up with many things. Now as I said the only back-up position I can possibly see is one of a [inaudible] if Kleindienst [Richard Kleindienst, then Attorney General] wants to back [inaudible] for [inaudible...
...years?certainly since the New Deal???has been part of the country's basic leftward trend, and still is. The Middle is located much farther toward the left today than it was a decade...
After Gulf & Western was blocked by the Justice Department from taking over Armour & Co., Charlie Bluhdorn attempted to resell his 750,000 shares to the meat packer for about $60 per share. He thought he had a deal???and an $18 million profit?but Armour Chairman William Wood Prince tried a squeeze play to drive the price down to $50. His method was ingenious. Armour made a public offer to repurchase 20% of its own outstanding shares at $50 each. If successful, the move would have increased Bluhdorn's stake in Armour from 9.8% to 12½%, thus making Gulf & Western...
...that the men who go to such congresses favor: a balanced budget, the gold standard, a modified NRA, an end to government competition with business. But genuine economic articulation came not from the practicing-economists who were delegates to the Congress but from the practicing politicians of the New Deal???Daniel Roper, Raymond Moley; Donald Richberg...