Word: donald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Coast, about 1,200 Douglas Aircraft stockholders gathered at the Beverly Hilton Hotel for the company's final annual meeting. Seventy-two percent of the shareholders voted for merger with McDonnell Aircraft, which is expected to take place at month's end. Even after Donald W. Douglas Sr. described the "sharp and ultimately disastrous reversal of our fortunes," which meant a loss of $27.5 million in 1966, the shareholders gave him a standing ovation. Perhaps symbolic of Douglas' lackluster recent days was a movie shown to the gathering about its DC-8 jets. It ground...
...hours earlier in St. Louis, 81% of McDonnell's stockholders had approved the merger plan, but at least one question asked at the Midwest meeting was echoed in Los Angeles: Why is Donald Douglas Jr., the man widely criticized for running the company into the red, to be paid $100,000 annually (he received $150,000 at Douglas) as a member of the merged board of directors? With characteristic firmness Chairman James S. McDonnell answered: "No retribution of any nature is called...
...owner of Krackerjacks Inc. appeared in court yesterday on charges of selling second-hand clothing without a license. Donald "Jack" Levy, owner and manager of the Cambridge mod fashions store, won a postponement of the case until next Thursday...
...Donald W. Meaders '69, one of those opposed to the resolution, said after the meeting, "I find it appalling that at this university not even the Republican Club has the courage to support American bombing of such obvious military targets as MIG bases and power plants...
Died. Sir Donald Sangster, 55, Prime Minister of Jamaica for seven weeks, who spent 18 years as self-effacing lieutenant of Sir Alexander Bustamante, the leader of Jamaica's push to independence in 1962 and its first Prime Minister, finally came into his own last January when "Busta," aging (83) and infirm, handed over the reins of his Jamaica Labor Party, which Sangster guided to victory in February's elections; of a brain hemorrhage; in Montreal. His successor is Union Leader Hugh Lawson Shearer, 43, appointed by the Governor General after a party caucus...