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...Double. Acting on his orders, Southern orators zeroed in on the jury-trial gimmick, forced New York's Emanuel Celler and other advocates into an uncomfortable posture of constant defense. Between speeches they clapped friendly arms around Republican shoulders, added private pleas to public petitions in behalf of the amendment. When the Southerners hinted that they could sniff 240 votes in favor of their amendment, Administration forces were flabbergasted and alarmed...
...insurance companies have accumulated too much power over too much of the U.S. Shanks has acted as spokesman for the industry in its defense before congressional committees. Once, testifying before a House monopoly subcommittee, he outlined his aims so lucidly that even New York's New Dealing Representative Emanuel Celler was mollified. Said Celler: "Shanks made the best impression of all. He indicated an awareness that insurance companies, due to their size, must exercise social responsibility." Actually, Shanks is not worried that the industry is too big. Rather, he worries that it is too small. As the U.S. economy...
...bunched together in the little quasi-ghettos most early Jews formed elsewhere in the New World. Eleven of them banded together in 1872, in the dusty prairie town that was Dallas, to organize charity and conduct high Holy Day services. Four years later they had become the Jewish Congregation Emanuel, comprising 32 families. Today there are 1,500 families in Emanuel, the dominant Jewish congregation in Dallas. Its leaders include Banker Fred Florence (Republic National Bank), Papermaker Lawrence Pollock (Pollock Paper Corp.), Merchant Prince Stanley Marcus (Neiman-Marcus), all of whom take Texas-size pride in being civic leaders...
...Congratulations," said a well-wisher last week to NBC's newly appointed vice president for television programming. "You mean condolences," replied Emanuel ("Manie") Sacks, a short, dark man of 52 with a talent for finding talent. Sacks was only half kidding. With the possible exception of watching the screen all day long, no task in TV is tougher than figuring out how to keep it filled. One of the big challenges facing Sacks and his fellow programmers on the other networks : the current season has turned into a big Unspectacular, and so far there is little...
...first automatic washer in 1937, will be sold, pending approval of final terms, by Avco Manufacturing Corp. to Philco Corp. Avco also said it will close its money-losing Crosley appliance business (refrigerators, ranges, radio-TV), leaving 78 distributors around the nation with nothing to distribute. Chairman Victor Emanuel ticked off a host of reasons for Avco's retreat from appliances: "Increasingly severe competition, large over-capacities, rampant price-cutting, rising costs of labor and material...