Word: robert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brother Robert, chief counsel for the Senate labor racketeering committee, walked into a political hornets' nest when he said, at a Milwaukee press conference, that an unnamed "union" and "a large company" had, "within the last year," offered effective political support for brother Jack if Bobbie could get the McClellan committee to play ball. The offers, said Bobbie, were "dismissed," reported to Brother Jack-but not to Committee Chairman John McClellan. In Washington, South Dakota's Karl E. Mundt, senior G.O.P. committee member, demanded that "the whole nauseating affair be fully explored and publicly exposed...
...Diabolic" Plots. The massacre that never happened was to remain the mystery of the week. Only the day before the emergency was declared, Nyasaland's Governor, Sir Robert Armitage, had flatly stated that no such drastic action would be needed. Now Sir Robert had suddenly taken a stand that seemed contrary to everything that this elegant, liberal, and somewhat indecisive civil servant had ever stood for. He had helped speed
...would all this force really be effective against the will of 3,000,000 blacks, Sir Robert Armitage was asked. He replied: "I doubt it." The sad, familiar communiques had begun: because of the threat of trouble, "security forces had been obliged to open fire," and the casualty lists followed. Force could not make Nyasaland accept the domination it feared from Southern Rhodesia. Many predicted the end of federation. But this was no answer, argued London's Economist. Poor Nyasaland would become a "rural slum"; self-governing Southern Rhodesia, isolated, would become a satellite of South Africa, and Africa...
...Crew-cut Robert McDonnell, a 17-year-old senior at Maine Township high school in Park Ridge, Ill., earned a $4,000 fourth prize by measuring the heat given off by several chemical reactions involving graphite. He likes astronomy, chess, classical music and stamp collecting, wants to study particle and theoretical physics...
Aggressive Acoustica is an example of how fast an ultrasonics firm can grow. In 1955 Acoustica's young (now 38) President Robert L. Rod set up shop in a boathouse, landed six contracts for some $8,000 worth of ultrasonic cleaners. Since then, Acoustica's sales have increased, on the average, six times every year. For the fiscal year ended last Feb. 28, sales hit $4,750,000, with earnings of 50? per share, v. 8? in 1957. Stock issued at $1 per share in 1956 was selling around $25 per share last week. To boost earnings this...