Word: schenley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throughout the U.S. Friends brought Robinson together with Hamilton's chief, Philip J. Goldberg, who owns 40% of the company's stock. Goldberg offered him quite a deal: Robinson could name four directors for Hamilton's 17-man board-including himself and his brother-in-law, Schenley Vice President Charles T. Williams-and the Robinson group could buy 30,000 of Goldberg's roughly 225,000 shares in the company at a price "under" its current over-the-counter value of $14.50. Robinson intends to open a string of agencies in Negro neighborhoods, says that...
...guests. His financial backers are a wildly diverse group?thanks in part to Marion's standing in artistic-intellectual-entertainment circles. They have comprised a mint of Rockefellers, a socko of showbiz moguls from MCA's Jules Stein to the late Billy Rose, a tussle of tycoons that include Schenley's Lewis Rosenstiel and Seagram's Bronfman family, Macy's Jack Straus and Gimbel's Bernard Gimbel, Heinz Foods' H. J. Heinz II and Consolidated Foods' Nathan Cummings (see U.S. BUSINESS...
...Central Valley from Delano to Sacramento. Marching with them were Roman Catholic priests and nuns and Protestant ministers, and the mood of the demonstrators was triumphant. For shortly before the protesters reached the state capital, they had won recognition of their embryonic union, the National Farm Workers Association, from Schenley Industries Inc., which owns about 2,400 acres of vineyards in the Delano area...
...council and president of the University of Oregon. McGucken sent three official representatives to join the march, while Pike's diocesan Intergroup Relations Committee sponsored a collection of food, clothing and money for the strikers. In a number of U.S. cities, clergymen urged their laymen to boycott Schenley products...
...growers and vineyard workers-and have been under considerable pressure to stay neutral on the growers' side. After Archbishop McGucken endorsed the march, one vineyard spokesman warned that "the church leaders had better start looking for other financial means to carry out their radical theories." But now that Schenley has agreed to accept the union, most of the vineyards are expected to follow suit. Delano's largest grower, Di Giorgio Fruit Corp., has already agreed to let its workers vote on whether they wanted a union or not. (Two other unions besides Chávez's Farm...