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QUOTABLE - He sent "these young Democratic workers out door-to-door, knocking on the door--boom, boom, boom!--like jackbooted Hitler Youth." - Republican candidate for Senate Jack E. Robinson criticizing Kennedy...
...York between 1921 and '56. The Yankees were playing the Giants, or then later they were playing the Dodgers. It was a rivalry renewed, and players developed histories within the Subway Series. DiMaggio played in six of them. Ruth, Mantle, Whitey Ford, Pee Wee Reese of the Dodgers, Jackie Robinson." The Subway Series even has a patron saint. Stengel was on the Giants' roster in the very first New York-New York Series, when both the Yanks and Giants played in the Polo Grounds in 1921. The Giants won that Series and the next year's too. In the first...
Price cited 1989 as a major turning point in black advancement in business, comparing it to 1947--the year Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball. In that year, three CEOs named to lead three Fortune 500 companies--Fannie Mae, American Express and Maytag--were black...
...proctor reported three students throwing water balloons outside Robinson Hall. When officers responded, the students were gone...
...Hogg Robinson's decision is part of a surprising trend at a time when start-up companies still dream of going public. Even so, a growing number of European firms--mostly from old-economy sectors--are delisting from stock exchanges. Freed from having to please investors every quarter, many smaller companies find it easier to grow--or reinvent themselves--when they are financed by private-equity funds and banks instead. The buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Robert recently created a $3 billion European fund and started scouting the Old World for new privatization deals. "There are lots of opportunities here," explains...