Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Others, notably Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, have more serious quarrels with the Report. Handlin feels that the report over-emphasizes the peculiar historical position of the Negro and is too pessimistic about the Negro's potential ability to improve his own lot. Such a distorted perspective, he feels, is in effect racist and can have a debilitating effect on Negroes...
...Harry Parker will say about going to Mexico City is this: "It is fairly clear that we have the potential to make a boat fast enough to go to the Trials and win them. But these oarsmen realize that a lot of different elements go into making a winning combination. It's not automatic. We're looking for that combination, and I think we have as good a chance as anyone else of finding...
...Manhattan to Chief European Correspondent Charles Collingwood in Tokyo. "Well, Charles," said Walter, at the end of the half-hour, "get yourself some rest and hurry on home with the rest of the film you're carrying." "Thank you, Walter," replied Collingwood. "I've got a lot more to tell...
Lytton's predicament arises partly from events beyond his grasp, partly from his own reach. He has been reaching ever since he arrived in California with $30 in his pocket in the late '30s. He wrote radio-and screenplays ("I'm a lot prouder of some of the mortgages I've written," he says), then took on an advertising job for a mortgage broker. Later, when he moved into S&Ls, Lytton quickly proved himself a master of theatrical dazzle as he wooed savings accounts. He held art auctions and book fairs, gave away coffee...
...Parties. The suit was filed by a New York wholesale shoe salesman named Morton Eisen, who felt that he had been charged excessive brokerage fees for odd lots (less than 100 shares) of stock he had bought and sold. Nearly 99% of all U.S. odd-lot transactions go through two Wall Street firms, so Eisen had a convenient target for his suit. The firms were also vulnerable because the Securities and Exchange Commission had disclosed in 1963 that their virtual monopoly on odd-lot trading had led to abuses. Claiming that the abuses amounted to illegal price fixing, Eisen sued...