Word: laskey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Riot Act. Cincinnati's four-day outburst was the longest of the week, and in many ways the most ominous. Triggered by the arrest of a Negro demonstrator who was protesting a death sentence imposed upon his cousin, Posteal Laskey,* the riots raged not through a Negro slum, but in spacious, residential neighborhoods, where many of the city's 110,000 Negroes were moved when Cincinnati razed its ghetto as part of a $100 million urban-renewal program. After three days, during which more than 100 stores and businesses were firebombed, Mayor Walton Bachrach called in the National...
...Convicted for stabbing a white secretary, Laskey was believed to be "the Cincinnati strangler" who killed five women in a year; no similar murders have been committed since his arrest last December...
...parlor meetings. Haft did not like the unbusinesslike approach. Says he: "The time has come to stop singing the Hatikvah [Israel's anthem] to raise a dollar." Instead Haft settled on mutuals, hoped that $10 million might be raised. He took his idea to Boston Movie Exhibitor Lawrence Laskey, who had large holdings in Bonds of Israel and was equally tired of parlor meetings. Impressed, Laskey bypassed Jewish-controlled investment houses to avoid any further tinge of sentiment, persuaded Manhattan's Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis to underwrite the plan. Visiting Israel, he also persuaded Finance Minister Levi Eshkol...