Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Equally fine is Frances Gitter as his mother Volumnia, giving the most articulate and intelligent performance in a generally excellent cast. Frank Hartenstein's lighting added more to characterization than one dares hope for at the Loeb: a scene between Coriolanus and six others on a balcony proved remarkable in that only Coriolanus's shadow was projected onto the stage floor fifteen feet below, serving to isolate him completely from the other more reasonable characters...
...garbage collectors, most of them making $1.80 an hour, went on strike for a 60?-an-hour minimum raise, recognition of their union and a dues checkoff by city hall. Nearly all of Memphis' 1,300 garbage men are black, only three of 13 councilmen are. Mayor Henry Loeb has spurned the strikers' demands. As the dispute escalated, labor solidarity has been replaced by a surge of Black Power, led by black ministers and manned by militant black youngsters...
Young raiders broke into a Beale Street department store. Fires were set to the garbage piling up at a rate of nearly 500 tons a day. Windows have been broken in laundries and barbecue restaurants bearing the Loeb name (they are owned by the mayor's brother). "I am not in favor of violence," said the Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., an erudite militant who leads much of the Negro struggle. But "if I were inclined to advocate burning, it would be in East Memphis [where the mayor lives]-I think we've had enough talk of this...
Hope & Danger. By week's end two mutations in the struggle had evolved. Growing weary of Mayor Loeb's intransigence, fashionably dressed white housewives urged him to give in, while council members called for the dues checkoff and for pledging Memphis' government to equal-opportunity hiring and promotion. And the scope of Negro demands was widening as swiftly as their mood could darken. Now agitators call not only for victory for the garbage men but better jobs and housing for all of Memphis' Negroes...
Swistel said the incident was the first major theft in the Loeb's history...