Word: emmette
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instance, may establish the president's presence in one city at a time when Justice Department antitrust lawyers accuse him of being someplace else in a price-fixing conspiracy. Leahy's teams shy from letting corporate committees decide what should be thrown out. "In committee," says Founder Emmett Leahy, 53, "a company can always come up with reasons why useless papers should be retained...
...himself, at the age of fourteen, saw a friend of his father's lynched in Decatur, Miss., supposedly for insulting a white woman. Two Negroes who registered to vote, the Rev. George W. Lee of Belxoni, Miss., and Lamar Smith of Brookhaven, Miss., were shot to death in 1955. Emmett Till was killed that same year. During the spring of 1959, Mack Parker was dragged from his call in Poplarville and murdered. Not a single man has been brought to trial for any of these crimes...
...speak on behalf of all of us in the United States in expressing our pleasure in meeting you and our pleasure in the honor you have done our country." Kennedy also presided over the Rose Garden presentation of a Distinguished Service Medal to recently retired Air Force General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., who led the first B-29 bomber raid on Tokyo during World War II. Just before the affair began, Kennedy spotted a clutch of U.S. Senators in the crowd. He introduced a couple of Democrats by their last names, suddenly saw Republican Barry Goldwater and yelled...
...pals, from Hail Fellow Toots Shor to Toyman Louis Marx, went flying across the Pacific for the misty-eyed moment in Hawaii. There, at Hickam Field, U.S.A.F. Gen. Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., 56, leader of the first B-29 raid on Tokyo in 1944, was mustered out after 35 years of service. In the White House Rose Garden, with parallel pomp, U.S.N. Admiral George Anderson Jr., 56, the Chief of Naval Operations who planned and ran the Cuba blockade and then was replaced by President Kennedy, got a gold star (in lieu of a second Distinguished Service Medal...
...figuring their payrolls to giving advice on foreign investments. But nothing wins over the flinty-eyed treasurer like a better interest rate. "It's fantastic what some of them will do for a one-hundredth of one percent pickup in interest," says a Los Angeles banker. Adds President Emmett Solomon of San Francisco's Crocker-Anglo Bank: "The corporate treasurer is in the driver's seat...