Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasonable assumption that I will get the Bennett St. MTA Yards," Samuel P. Coffman, Boston banker and investor, told the CRIMSON yesterday...
Saltonstall has long thought of changing his career to public service. As it happened, Peace Corps Boss Sargent Shriver was searching for a new man in Nigeria to replace Samuel Proctor, 41, the able Negro ex-college president who is being promoted to command of all Peace Corps training. U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel, the best talent scout in the education business, suggested Saltonstall, and Shriver happily landed his man. Saltonstall's decision was "something way down in your gut that says 'yes,' " he explains. "I'm not a 'save-the-worlder...
...shares outstanding, then approved an ingenious Guterma plot to print thousands of additional shares and dump them on the public-at a profit. First it proposed a merger with little-known and profitless Handridge Oil Corp., which was controlled by Chairman Guterma and Las Vegas Gamblers Samuel Garfield and Irving Pasternak. Terms: 575,000 new shares of United Dye, worth $18 million, for 575,000 shares of Handridge, whose assets had been bought from Texas Wheeler-Dealers John and Clint Murchison Jr. for a mere $519,000. Remarkably, this deal was approved with a minimum of investigation...
...Amphibious Life. The difficulty maids had in defending their chastity was immortalized by Samuel Richardson in Pamela. In fact, so much uninhibited dalliance went on belowstairs that Hack Writer Daniel Defoe found the maids fair game. Nothing is more common, he wrote, "than to find these creatures one week in a good family and the next in a brothel. This amphibious life makes 'em fit for neither, for if the bawd use them ill, away they trip to service and if their mistress gives 'em a wry word, whip they're at a bawdyhouse again, so that...
Pointless Sacrifice. Little David & Co. have not done badly for a slingshot operation, but fact is that they have barely pricked the hides of Portland's Goliaths. Since Newspaper Collector Samuel Newhouse added the money-losing Journal to his chain in 1961, he has been consolidating its noneditorial operations with those of the Oregonian (which he bought in 1950), and claims to be confident of eventually turning a profit. The Oregonian has slashed its noneditorial manpower by 30%, is so fat with ads that it shows a profit of more than $1,000,000 a year...