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Reign's End. Detractors lay much of the blame to an aging but not notably mellow Schenley spirit: Chairman Lewis Solon Rosenstiel, 75. Rosenstiel founded the company shortly before repeal in 1933, and remains its dominant shareholder, controlling stock worth some $55 million. Ever contentious, he has for decades feuded with the industry over various marketing practices; more recently, he has spent much of his time in and out of court waging private wars with, among others, his estranged fourth wife, his daughter, one of his own lawyers, and his Greenwich, Conn., neighbors...
...Esther James, a Harlem widow whom Powell labeled on TV as a "bag woman" for gambling payoffs. With interest, Powell's debt is now close to $51,000. With rare severity, New York has issued a warrant for his civil ar rest. But now that Congress has convened, Solon Powell has once more donned the constitutional toga (Art. I, Sec. 6) that immunizes Congressmen from civil arrest "during their attendance at the sessions of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same...
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...