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...pledges were to buy shares of the Endicott-Johnson Corp., the Triple Cities' biggest employer and the nation's second largest shoe manufacturer (first: International Shoe Co.). The aggressor-at least in the eyes of the company's 13,000 local employees and the overwhelming majority of the Triple Cities' population of 200,000-was the multi-industry Glen Alden Corp., headed by Albert A. List...
...company's 810,000 shares of common stock, then selling at $27.50. A week later Endicott-Johnson Director Jacob M. Kaplan, onetime Welch Grape Juice president, was revealed to have sold 60,000 shares of his stock to Glen Alden, explained that he thought the shoe concern was "a dying company." Word quickly spread through the Triple Cities that Glen Alden, if it got control, would move the plants-a rumor Glen Alden denied...
Hand in Hand. The Soviet Union tried hard to exploit the new balance of power. Although the Afro-Asian group may have deplored Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging behavior in the Assembly, many of the new neutralist nations, for reasons of their own, were willing to join in voting against "Western imperialism" on more than one important occasion. Where Russia once voted with only a lonely Communist bloc of nine on many resolutions, 20 and more members now found their voting plans coinciding with the Reds', though few of the new countries were Communist or even sympathetic...
James Dalton Trumbo was born in Montrose, Colo.; his father was variously a shoe salesman and a beekeeper, his mother a Christian Scientist who did constant battle with the school board to make sure that no one vaccinated her son. "I was surrounded with the atmosphere of dissent," he remembers, with the air of a man who has used the story before to point his moral. "My Southern grandmother, burning with hateful memories of the Yankee invasion, dissented from the Union until she died. My grandfather joined with the dissent of the Populists, then with the dissent of Bryan...
...last of eight children of a Russian immigrant family, Goldberg grew up on Chicago's West Side, went to work as a delivery boy in a shoe factory (for $3.80 a week) at the age of twelve, and won his law degree at Northwestern University at 20. He argued his own case so beguilingly before the state Supreme Court that the rules were suspended and he was permitted to take his bar examinations before his 21st birthday...