Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than 80 students and faculty last night joined members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) in picketing outside Winthrop House, to protest the arrival of recruiters from the Chase Manhattan Bank. The protesters objected to Chase's refusal to make a public commitment against future loans to the South African government and its agencies...
Demonstrators, led by members of SASC and the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), chanted "Chase Manhattan foots the bill, Botha's army shoots to kill," and other slogans to the beats of bongo drums as Chase recruiters interviewed students inside Winthrop...
...Harvard Corporation has stated it will not hold certificates of deposit in any bank that is currently making, rolling over or renewing loans to the South African government. The Corporation holds no such investments in Chase Manhattan...
...time now for Kaplan to leave his Boston center (the second largest branch behind his Madison Avenue office in Manhattan),to go back to New York on the last shuttle. He kisses his daughters--who run the Boston center--goodbye...
With the advent of the SAT, Kaplan found his work load too much to handle individually. Word-of-mouth advertising about the feisty tutor had spread to Queens and manhattan. He opened a permanent center in Brooklyn to handle the load, and rented places in the other boroughs in which to teach. His metropolitan area business continued to snowball as he became better known and the standardized tests more important...