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...three seasons, Washington won 115 games, lost only 53. Soon it was on to Boston to coach the Celtics, whose record was dismal and attendance little better. Auerbach's first move did nothing to endear him to the fans: in the player draft he imperiously rejected a popular All-America from Holy Cross named Bob Cousy. "What do you want me to do," growled Auerbach. "win basketball games or satisfy the local yokels?" Cousy, insisted Auerbach, had yet to prove himself. The Celtics got Cousy back by a stroke of luck. When the Chicago Stags, a team that...
...half-century of Prohibition; that enraged the state's substantial dry minority. He set up a withholding system for state income tax and a merit system for state employees, pushed for legislative reapportionment and a dilution of the powers of county commissioners. Such reforms did not endear him to the regular Democratic organization...
...Christmas were a vaudeville actress, she would have long ago retired. Her simpering ways and importuning mien endear her to no audience but the vulgar, and when she dares to look up boldiy and speak out, it is with tongue of brass and not of gold...
Such actions were hardly calculated to endear Hill to the labor leaders. Dubinsky attacked Hill's virulence, attributing it, oddly, to the fact that Hill is a white man: "Maybe because he is non-Negro, he's got to convince them that he's more Negro than the Negroes." Snapped Reuther: "Certain N.A.A.C.P. staff people have seriously weakened the work of the N.A.A.C.P., and retarded progress because of indiscriminate and inaccurate charges which make large headlines but get little results." Indeed, only N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins seemed to be trying to smooth things over...
...takers. The powerful German banks also cut off his credit; now other companies may be able to pick up the pieces of his empire at bargain prices. "My creditors," cried Schlieker, "stiff-armed me and let me starve." In his rise to the top, Schlieker had done little to endear himself to bankers or fellow industrialists. He operated as a lone wolf, got rich by successively working for the Nazis as a steel expert, selling millions of dollars worth of steel to Communist East Germany, and swapping German steel for U.S. coal during the Korean war. Old-line German businessmen...