Word: lynching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John D. Lynch, a mayor of Cambridge for three terms, died yesterday at the age of 80. A self-made millionaire who served on the City Council until he was 78, Lynch had been active in Cambridge politics for more than 30 years...
...much of that time, the northwest part of Cambridge, between Porter Sq. and Arlington, was known as "Lynchville" because of his influence. Lynch began his political career in 1930 by winning election to the City's School Board, and in 1936 and 1937, under Cambridge's Plan B charter, he was twice elected mayor...
...million. Sears, Roebuck invests from 5% to 10% of profits in its plan, which is now worth $1.7 billion; Sears employees who retired last year drew an average of $64,496 each. Such large firms as Eastman Kodak, the S. C. Johnson Co. (Johnson's Wax), Merrill Lynch and the Bank of America have plans, and this year's converts to profit sharing include Montgomery Ward...
Died. Charles Erasmus Fenner, 87, New Orleans stockbroker, co-founder of Fenner & Beane, which he merged in 1941 into Manhattan's Merrill Lynch, E. A. Pierce & Cassatt to create what is today the world's largest brokerage house, responsible for 15% of the volume on the New York Stock Exchange; in Slidell...
Irish whisky was on the rocks and Irish accents were in the air last week as a Manhattan department store kicked off a merchandising maneuver that had all the government brass and economic implications of a trade treaty. Ireland's Minister for Industry and Commerce John Lynch was on hand, and so were officials from the Irish Export Board. Ambassadors, industrialists and such shamrock-struck Americans as James A. Farley milled through a series of receptions, dinners, cocktail parties and pretty speeches. It was hard to believe that crass commercial enterprise was involved. But it was-to an extent...