Word: greeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important check on the big banks' expansion policies could come in the next few weeks, when the Supreme Court is due to rule on a landmark case involving an offer by the First National Bancorporation Inc. of Denver to buy the First National Bank of Greeley, Colo. The Justice Department is opposing the purchase. It argues that by buying an existing bank instead of starting one, the holding company offers customers no new choice and could eliminate "potential competition" at some later date. The lower courts have ruled that present antitrust legislation covers only actual competition, and found against...
Senior defensive end Mike McHugh was named recipient of the Frederick Greeley Crocker Award for "initiative, perseverance, courage, and selflessness." The award is the Harvard equivalent to a most valuable player prize...
...tallies read off odometers, the West would win the U.S. popularity contest in a landslide. The 1970 census figures show that the population of mountain and Pacific states has increased by 24.1 % since 1960. v. an increase on the other side of the Great Divide of only 11%. Horace Greeley's advice, "Go West, young man," is still being heeded by young and old alike, in spite of the fact that the "frontier" is now posted at intervals with taco and fried-chicken stands. Ecologists point out that the very nature of the West-little water and enormous stretches...
...Greeley insisted that Knowles's election was not a repudiation of Kleindienst's politics. "I don't think there's anything political in the thing at all," he said. Kleindienst managed the 1964 presidential campaign of Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) and engineered last year's mass arrests of demonstrators in Washington during the "Mayday" protests...
...Greeley also said that Kleindienst wasn't as well known as Knowles when the balloting was conducted. He said this was probably a more important factor in the voting than any political considerations...