Word: hire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first thing David A. ("Sonny") Werblin did when he bailed out the bankrupt New York franchise in 1963 was to hire Wilbur ("Weeb") Ewbank as his coach and buy time on the radio to ask: "What kind of a name is Weeb...
...York City's Superintendent Bernard Donovan sent recruiters south to hire 60 Negroes displaced by the closing of Negro schools under integration plans, and got 2,000 other teachers by offering inexperienced B.A. holders free summer education courses at N.Y.U...
...Manhattan housewife as she spotted New York City's parks committee lunching at one of his own best new inventions: the tent-topped, three-week-old Fountain Café in Central Park. Suddenly her friend was at her side. Why couldn't ther be deck chairs for hire? "People steal them," said the commissioner. Then how about miniature golf near Riverside Drive? "Hmm," said Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving, and in ten seconds he was sketching miniature-golf courses on a scrap of paper. "Sure," he said gaily. "It could work...
Hangman's Noose. Opposition to clerical involvement takes many forms -some of them crude. When Methodist Pastor Eugene Lowry of Kansas City's College Heights Methodist Church urged his congregation to hire a Negro organist, his car was burned and he found a hangman's noose on his mail box. More frequently, though, opposition takes a financial form. Outspoken preachers on civil rights have seen their collection-plate income drop as much as 50% after a sermon on integration; last month All Souls Church in Washington, D.C., drastically cut its annual contribution to the city...
...dominated for ten years, picked State Senator Don W. Samuelson, 53, to oppose Smylie in the primary. Samuelson, a stolid, somewhat inarticulate politician who sells fire-fighting equipment and rock drills, campaigned principally on the notion that "the state government must be operated as a business," and promised to hire "a crew of certified public accountants" to make sure that it would be. It was not much, but, considering Smylie's new liabilities and the fact that he has recently become so preoccupied with national politics that he has neglected to tend to his own grass roots...