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Steinbrenner, one of the most controversial figures in baseball history, is the only owner to be severely penalized twice for major offenses. He was suspended in 1974 by Bowie Kuhn for making illegal campaign contribution to Richard Nixon...
...city's newspapers. "How many subway riders, wary of the deranged homeless who make the subterranean world so menacing, have not fantasized responding to assault with violence?" wrote social commentator Myron Magnet in the New York Times. Public wrath at the homeless was so palpable that the Rev. George Kuhn felt the need to admonish restraint at the funeral of Sumter's still unidentified victim. "Homeless people are not wanted in our country," said Kuhn. "We have to say, 'I am ready to give my all so that this does not happen again...
Cohen was determined to build a firm that would rival Merrill Lynch in size. In 1984 he orchestrated a $360 million merger between Shearson/American Express and Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. That move catapulted Shearson into the immensely profitable investment-banking business. But signs of stress began to appear in the wake of the 1987 stock-market crash, when Shearson paid nearly $1 billion to acquire E.F. Hutton. Dozens of top-notch Hutton brokers defected to other investment firms. At the same time, the firm suffered dwindling business from individual investors, on whom Shearson was still heavily dependent. Cohen, meanwhile...
...explicit purpose of clearing out the gamblers. Without any process at all, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis expelled everyone involved in the Black Sox scandal. His '40s successor, Happy Chandler, gave Brooklyn Dodgers manager Durocher a year's suspension merely for associating with gamblers. In the '60s Bowie Kuhn docked Detroit Tigers pitcher McLain a half-season for making book...
...questionable wisdom" of bestowing absolute authority on a single person was brought up in passing by U.S. district court Judge Frank McGarr in 1977. But he used that phrase in the process of rejecting a complaint by Oakland A's owner Charlie Finley that Kuhn was wrecking him financially by arbitrarily keeping him from liquidating his team a player at a time. Judge McGarr ruled, "So broad and unfettered was the commissioner's discretion intended to be that the owners provided no right of appeal, and even took the extreme step of foreclosing their own access to the courts...