Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation seems to be demanding more use of the nightstick. At 40, he is something of an old-fashioned liberal in a time of increasing anxiety over the New Left rebellion. The son of former Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, Ramsey worked in the family's law firm in Dallas before beginning a Justice Department career in 1961. He and his wife still try to get together with the elder Clarks at least once a weekend, although the family rule is that they never talk law. He has never been a prosecutor, and Senator John Tower of Texas argues...
Warner & Swasey Co., the Cleveland machine-tool firm that has a reputation for conservatism, decided to help rebuild the city's riot-seared Hough section. This year, its executives persuaded Robert L. Coles, a Negro machinist and aviation-mechanics teacher, to ally his limping little C & B Machine Co. with Warner & Swasey in a joint venture. Together they created the Hough Manufacturing Co., whose ten Negro workers labor over turret lathes and milling machines. Warner & Swasey invested $250,000 to buy a three-story plant and provide operating capital. Coles got 200 shares...
...SELF-HELP. Negro groups have also initiated a number of businesses. A few months ago, Charles Bussey, a Negro operator of a furniture-restoring firm, rounded up 25 other Negro investors to form San Francisco Container Corp, They put up $20,000, then raised another $180,000 from the Bank of America and the Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. Next month, in San Francisco's Hunters Point ghetto, they will open a plant that will make chipboard and cardboard cases...
...Angeles, two Negro civil rights workers, Robert Hall and Lou Smith, borrowed $1,000 to launch a job-training project. To provide the facilities, they started a service station, a clothing shop, and a firm that sells African-style garments to The May Co. and Bullock's department stores. "We want to create economic black power," says Hall, describing his plans to share profits with his 82 employees. "We want the people of the community to own everything we start...
...lawyer on the board of another company finds out that the firm will soon market a profitable new product. But one of his law partners is an adviser to several estates and intends to unload the company's shares. Should the lawyer dissuade his partner...