Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Father Joe Kennedy sits down for a man-to-man talk with his son, Jack...
...Depressed"' by the public reaction over his partnership in a Manhattan public relations firm that made a $287,000 deal with Fidel Castro to promote U.S. Negro tourism in Cuba (TIME, June 6), ex-Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis, a paunchy 46, announced that he will quit the firm unless it cancels its Cuban contract immediately...
...solution, Castro is doing what he can for the U.S. Negro. He hired Harlem's aging "Black Eagle," Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, to buy arms in Europe, and is currently giving Singer Marian Anderson the red-carpet treatment in Havana. Last year he invited Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, Joe Louis and Jackie Robinson to share his New Year's celebration in Havana...
...Joe Louis showed up, found Castro's Cuba a place "where a Negro can go in the wintertime without discrimination...
...income taxes-has carried his admiration further and become a paid pressagent for Cuba. With Cuba's $60 million-a-year tourist business off 85% and Havana's luxury hotels deserted, Castro signed a $287,000-a-year contract with a Manhattan all-Negro public relations firm (Joe Louis, vice president) to promote Cuba as a vacation spot for U.S. Negroes. The firm gets a fee of $25,000 a year, plus a 15% commission on advertising, so far has plans to spend $262,000 on contests and convention speakers plus space in U.S. publications bought mostly...