Word: ottley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Grand Dragon Dr. Samuel J. Green of the Ku Klux Klan gave an interview for The Nation to Negro Journalist Roi Ottley, who told Green that scientific thought and world opinion ran counter to the theory of Negro inferiority. Insisted Green: "I'm still livin' in Georgia, no matter what the world and science thinks." Why, asked Ottley, do Klansmen wear disguises? Explained the Grand Dragon: "So many people are prejudiced against the Klan these days...
...equal legal and civic rights. Harlem's Roi Ottley, seven years a reporter for the Amsterdam News, summed up in his recently published New World A-Coming: "In a word, the Negro wants democracy." But nowhere was the way the Negro hopes to reach his goal clearly stated. Author Ottley, who shares most Negroes' belief that leadership must come from Franklin Roosevelt, confessed to a large uncertainty about the Negro's future...
Atlanta also has the fabulous Candlers (Coca-Cola); the Grays, who last week sold the venerable Journal (see p. 35); James H. Nunnally (candy) and Steve Lynch, who took fortunes out of Florida's real-estate boom; John K. Ottley and Thomas K. Glenn (banking); Southern Railway's Vice President Robert Baker ("Bob") Pegram 3rd, who is the city's No. 1 railroader. These and their kind once would have lived on Peachtree Street (where dogwood blooms in the spring, but there are no peach trees). Now most of the rich live in lush Druid Hills...
Last week for the third time in a seven-year rise to riches, Charles Willard Young founded a Manhattan investment counsel firm. His first was Young & Ottley, launched in 1929 with the financial aid of a fellow Yaleman named James Henry Ottley. Young & Ottley promptly established itself by calling the stock-market crash. In 1933 young Mr. Young pulled out of Young & Ottley, moved from Manhattan's Chanin Building diagonally across 42nd Street to the Chrysler Building. There with new backers, notably James Cox Brady, Mr. Young set up an-other investment counsel firm called C. W. Young...
...Brady, heir to the Brady utility and motor fortune, William V. Griffin, president of Brady Security & Realty Corp., President William H. English Jr. of the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange and several of Bill Young's friends who were reported to have put up $50,000 each. Jimmy Ottley became president of the old firm, will continue as Young & Ottley...