Word: freedman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...private discussion, or been so tolerant of behind-closed-doors dissent. However, few have ever been so sensitive to public criticism, especially that originating in the press. Relations between LBJ and all but a select few of the nation's columnists (William S. White, his campaign biographer and Max Freedman, whose words seem to parody those of the President, are the two main exceptions) are chilly at best...
Died. Harold Freedman, 69, literary agent, a onetime actor who turned in his best performances peddling (for a 10% commission) Broadway shows to Hollywood, including Hello, Dolly! to 20th Century-Fox for $2,000,000, and My Fair Lady to Warner Bros, for $5,500,000 and 47½% of the gross over $20 million-highest price ever paid for movie rights; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Thus, Stampp contends, the crucial issues in the Radicals' plan were land reform and a controversial experiment in social engineering, the Freedman's Bureau. Land reform would give the Negro economic resources, and the Freedman's Bureau would cultivate a spirit of self-sufficiency. But reform was defeated and the Bureau proved short-lived. Nonetheless it is doubtful that even these measures could have prevented the subjugation of the freed slaves. Stampp does not convince me that when the influence of the Federal government was gone, the Negroes, whatever their gains economically and educationally, could have sustained themselves. The inevitable...
...stroke of intuitive genius one day seemed to be a blunder of impulsive foolishness the next. Nobody has found this more frustrating than the President of the U.S. Said Lyndon Johnson in a four-hour, after-dinner talkfest with some 30 journalists in the Georgetown home of Columnist Max Freedman: "We think we've got something patched up there and then it falls apart...
Last week the court reaffirmed the constitutionality of movie precensorship. But it unanimously reversed Freedman's conviction and voided the Maryland law on the ground that it lacked procedural safeguards and judicial participation. The trouble with Maryland's setup was that it provided no time limit or court appeal while the censors made up their minds. Nor did the law provide any rapid relief in the courts even after the board...