Word: founder
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...Savings, an aggressive competitor for consumers' savings, and made his mark by helping Glendale Federal S&L grow from a $23 million midget to a $450 million leader in its industry. He quit as president of Glendale Federal in 1962 over policy disputes with the association's founder-chairman, but within hours was hired as president of Los Angeles' First Charter Financial Corp., now the nation's largest publicly owned S&L holding company...
...lack of interesting new faces in the House. One will be that of Democrat Shirley Chisholm, 43, who won in a newly created Brooklyn district. Mrs. Chisholm will be the first Negro woman ever to become a member of the House of Representatives. She defeated another Negro?CORE Founder James Farmer?in a contest in which sex, of all things, was the big issue. Farmer aides conducted an underground campaign based on the premise that "women have been in the driver's seat" in black communities for too long. Negroes did not significantly increase their House holdings, but another...
...Others have experimented with long, shining strips of polymer plastics, which proved to be too slow and did not allow the ski edges to bite into the material on turns. Still others have developed mats with nylon bristles; they worked well?until the skier fell. Recalls Jack Kurlander, a founder of the Great Gorge ski area in New Jersey: "The bristles were needle-sharp and everybody tore his pants. There was blood, blood, blood. Boy! Were we embarrassed...
...with the dipsomaniacal dog, a house full of rotting food and stacked dishes, and the mongoloid boy mumbling at the sink, she gets off one of those deadpan lines in which De Vries reveals the madness of the rational world-the thundering irrelevance of good liberal intentions about to founder in a sea of chaos...
Hampton is a founder of New York's Conservative Party. He received the Republican endorsement as the result of a deal in which the Conservatives agreed to support the Republican candidate for District Attorney...