Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thoroughness" and sent it to Lufthansa's Cologne headquarters with the marginal notation, "i.e., Eichmann." Another, objecting to the claim that Germans do everything with "painful thoroughness," commented, "particularly gas chambers." An Israeli sent in a six-page, handwritten letter of criticism. From London's Encounter Editor Melvin J. Lasky came this word: "Never in the history of public relations has there been a campaign in such incredibly bad taste. I have already called the attention of the German ambassador to the horrified amazement that your company should go in for something so ill-calculated to win good...
...despair. Omaha's Public Safety Director Francis Lynch argues, "If we can't get to the truth, we can't solve cases. If we can't talk to the accused, whom can we talk to? The victim is often either dead or missing." Cincinnati Prosecutor Melvin Rueger complains, "Guilt or innocence is no longer the issue. The prime issue is whether a suspect was searched, interrogated or detained." Minneapolis Chief Calvin Hawkinson hits the "tone" of the ruling: "The emphasis of the court's decision is on individual rights and the public be damned...
...another image-improving move, the A.T.L.A. banned flamboyant Melvin M. Belli from its convention program. Belli, who once headed A.T.L.A., snorted: "This organization became great because it was once a vibrant force representing grass-roots lawyers who fought for the underdog. Now it's getting stuffy like the American Bar Association...
...spring, Hughes stunned everybody by cashing in his chips-all 6,584,937 shares of TWA, for $546 million, six times his original $90 million investment. Still, Tillinghast has insisted that the suit against Hughes remain alive. "It's a corporate asset," says TWA's General Counsel Melvin Milligan...
When you walk up Warren St. in Roxbury to go to the office of Melvin Miller, change is all around you. You can hardly hear yourself think, because bulldozers are flattening out what used to be a city block. The only think you can smell is crushed cement rubble kicked up by the bulldozers...