Word: jr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last September the ACTWU once again exploited the proxy power of policy holders by contesting the reelection of Ralph Manning Brown Jr., chairman of New York Life, and Finley, a director of New York Life. To save New York Life the multi-million dollar cost of holding directorship elections--and to ensure that two union-backed candidates were not elected to the board--both Finley and Brown resigned from the other's corporate board...
...dirty tricks -agents had been trying to discredit Martin Luther King Jr. by recording hotel room sounds of his alleged extramarital activities and sending the tapes to his wife. Hoover readily approved the plot against Seberg. Ordered Washington headquarters in a memo: "Jean Seberg has been a financial supporter of the B.P.P. [Black Panther Party] and should be neutralized." Headquarters had only one caveat: "It would be better to wait approximately two additional months until Seberg's pregnancy would be obvious to everyone...
...recent CAB study of Air New England found the company's finances and cash flow to be "precarious." Founded in 1970 and controlled by Investors Fairleigh Dickinson Jr. and Robert Kanzler, the Boston-based airline carries some 500,000 passengers annually. It operates at a loss for most of the year but gambles on cashing in during the summer, when traffic triples. Despite federal subsidies of $3.7 million, it lost $2 million on revenues of $21 million in 1978, and does not expect to do much better this year...
Essex Superior Court Judge Thomas J. Morse Jr., has scheduled sentencing for Monday...
WASHINGTON--House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) said yesterday recent comments by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) have convinced him that Kennedy is considering seeking the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination...