Word: lasker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Idea. The idea that the best prescription for cancer is financial is an old one. Mary Lasker, the longtime medical philanthropist, has strenuously urged the nation to commit more of its resources to the search for a cancer cure. She has argued that the National Cancer Institute, an arm of the National Institutes of Health, lacks the means to exploit many of its important findings. Last year Mrs. Lasker picked up some powerful support in Congress when a special commission put forth her favorite proposal: a $6 billion investment in cancer research during the coming decade and creation...
...brief, the antithesis of the popular conception of the sleek, cynical advertising man. Yet when Leo Burnett died at 79 after a heart attack last week, he was one of the ad world's giants. Along with a handful of others -Bruce Barton, Albert Lasker and Stanley Resor-Burnett was an American original who brought a distinctive viewpoint to the often imitative business of mass persuasion...
...reaction was predictable. New York Stock Exchange Chairman Bernard J. Lasker stuffily protested, "on behalf of more than 31 million share-owners who own stock in America's publicly owned corporations," that the only similarity/ between buying stock and betting on the nags is that "both involve a decision on the use of disposable personal income." Samuels teasingly replied: "On behalf of the 48,972 horses that raced in this country in 1970, I am sure that some of the horses feel they have been a better investment in the past few years than some of the investments...
Exchange Chairman Bernard J. ("Bunny") Lasker, who had voted with the 16-man majority, got into the act by declaring: "Bill Martin will have plenty to do, and we'll be consulting him along the way, but the tide of events is running too swiftly to put off vital decisions for nine months." Replied John Loeb: "The tide of events is not running too swiftly. Bunny Lasker...
...regain some of the lost business, an activist faction in the exchange's power structure-including Lasker, Salomon and Merrill Lynch Chairman Donald Regan-is willing to reduce commissions on big trades and liberalize the membership rules. Says Regan: "This is the solution for the exchange-the only way that it can get back that business." But the go-slow camp-including Loeb and Levy-fears that lower, negotiated commissions might lead to collusion between some brokers and big traders. Others argue that the change would cause more failures among brokerage houses because strong firms would underbid the weak...