Word: solon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such deft maneuvers are the work of Lykes Chairman Solon B. Turman, 64, the son of Tillie Lykes, who joined her seven brothers in founding the line. A tough-minded patriarch, Turman started out as a young man shoveling manure on Lykes's boats when the line was still ferrying cattle between Cuba and Florida. Now, with 52 ships regularly calling at 156 ports in 68 nations, Lykes is the largest U.S. dry-cargo shipping line. Turman runs the company so well that it earned $8,400,000 last year on revenues of $65.9 million...
Someone once asked Solon how justice could be achieved in Athens. "It can be achieved," replied the great law maker, in substance, "if those people who are not directly affected by a wrong are just as indignant about it as those who are personally hurt." This generalized passion for justice has always been a hard standard to live up to, but U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren cited it last week to set the theme for a major international meeting of jurists that convened last week in Solon's city...
Berg spoke lightly of a testimony before the House Merchant Marine Committee Wednesday that compulsory arbitration for maritime disputes "would be a great incentive for more effective collective bargaining." Solon B. Turman, chairman of Lykes Brothers Steamship Company Inc., giving the testimony, said that a threat of binding arbitration would induce labor and management to settle their disputes themselves...
Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Gaylord Nelson, 46, was out to slay a solon. And he had it all planned out. The intended victim was Alexander Wiley, 78, after 24 years the senior Republican in the U.S. Senate. The plan was simple: campaign energetically around the state, irk the old gentleman, let him lose his temper, and then shrug it all off as though it were pitiful proof of senility. The Nelson strategy worked...
What had happened? It was quite simple. Every time the Democratic 87th got ready to die reasonably, a senior Democratic Solon demanded the right to take one last, long gasp...