Word: lester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LESTER G. FLANAGAN
Visiting with President Eisenhower for 45 minutes one day last week were four top U.S. Negro leaders: the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. of Montgomery, Ala.; N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, A. (for Asa) Philip Randolph, founding (1925) boss of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Lester B. Granger, executive secretary for the National Urban League. The four were mindful of the President's recent exhortation to Negro publishers that Negroes be "patient" in their quest for full civil rights, and Wilkins, for one, had criticized Ike roundly. As a result, both the Negro leaders and the President...
...that leads newsmen and the FBI to a single theory: that Trujillo Critic Jesús de Galindez was kidnaped on his way home from giving a Columbia University lecture on March 12, 1956, drugged, and flown to a small airport in the Dominican Republic by American Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy, 22, who was later silenced by murder in Trujilloland...
...expressions as "ominous," "hostile," and "disconcertingly painful" in a Harper's Magazine article in which he also referred to U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles as "an unmitigated disaster." Said the Telegram: "To explain to an American that Mr. Hutchison acts as an adviser to [Opposition Leader Lester] Pearson, has little acquaintance with leading figures in the new government at Ottawa, and has long exhibited a deep hatred of Mr. Dulles, hardly offsets the mischief in the article...
With his own sales down 33% (for Ford) and 65% (for Mercury), Ford President Henry Ford II showed stockholders a first-quarter ledger with earnings off 77% to $22.7 million. Chrysler Boss Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert had to face up to a $15.1 million loss-the biggest ever-with sales down 53%. Only General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice has anything to crow about. Chevy has bumped Ford out of the No. 1 spot; G.M.'s overall first-quarter sales were off only 11.6%, its earnings down 29.1% to $185 million; G.M. cars, though down in volume, have captured...