Word: loebs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason enough to rejoice. Their predominantly Negro union not only forced a form of recognition from the cotton capital; its 14-month pact with city hall also calls for some solid pocketbook gains, including grievance procedures, a system of mer it promotions and a 9% pay hike. Mayor Henry Loeb, who bitterly branded the strike illegal when it began ten weeks ago, even agreed to a dues checkoff; under a face-saving scheme, a credit union will collect the money for the sanitationmen's treasury...
Symbol of Revolt. Ironically, it was the violence of Martin Luther King's death rather than the nonviolence of his methods that ultimately broke the city's resistance. Loeb, 47, a wealthy Southern patrician-turned-politician, relented on the critical issue of union recognition only after the assassination and under concerted pressure from the White House (through Labor Under Secretary James Reynolds), civil rights and labor leaders, and his own increasingly irritated local establishment. While many white Memphians initially supported Loeb's stand, they soon fretted over their city's fading image and the threat...
...support of those students who refuse cooperation with the Selective Service because they consider the war in Vietnam unjust and immoral, and as my name therefore did not appear in your edition of April 15, I wish to record it now. Daniel Seltzer Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Loeb Drama Center
...trumpet, wrote science fiction, novels and poetry by turns, it was first produced in Paris not long before his death, at the age of 39, nine years ago, and was known here only by name until the Harvard Dramatic Club presented it in a surprisingly good production at the Loeb Drama Center, where it continues...
...confrontation with the text, a testing of the values of the playscript in terms of the demands of a real stage and a live audience, but sadly, the confrontation never takes place. The quality of the play remains an open question, not to be resolved on the Loeb stage. The production is finally a mixed bag, triumphant in many of its details, but so deeply divided against itself in conception that it can only be judged self-destructive...