Word: tulsa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Within the Citadel. The longer the debate drags on, the greater will be the external pressures on the Senate for action, and last week civil rights advocates were plainly becoming increasingly restless. In Baltimore more than 2,000 marched on city hall to demand housing and job legislation. In Tulsa 54 were arrested for trespassing during a CORE-sponsored sit-in at a segregated restaurant. When the demonstrators, 50 Negroes and four whites, refused to leave, they were carried out bodily by cops. At police headquarters, they were carried inside, booked but not jailed. In St. Augustine, Fla., cops with...
Christian ecumenism also spills over to include Jews: one recent Lenten speaker at the Kansas City church was Rabbi Alexander Graubart of Congregation Beth Shalom; Jewish and Protestant scholars lecture at an eight-week Catholic Bible course in Tulsa, and Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati has 25 Christian students working for graduate degrees...
...Fidelity National, much of the money going to finance operations of Serv-U Corp. Through Baker's friendship with Kerr, Black said, he was able to borrow large sums. In 1962 he got one loan for $175,000 to purchase stock in the Farmers & Merchants State Bank in Tulsa, subsequently sold 1,500 shares to Edward Levinson and 1,600 shares to Ben Sigelbaum, a seldom-seen Miami pal of Levinson's. For his part, Baker had other well-oiled bank connections. Washington's District of Columbia National Bank lent him an unsecured...
...brother of the two founders of Phillips Petroleum Co., who himself struck it rich wheeling and dealing in oil properties during World War I, formed his own Waite Phillips Co. that he sold in 1925 for an estimated $40 million, branched into office buildings, ranching and banks (cofounder of Tulsa's largest, the First National Bank and Trust), then gave his 127,000-acre ranch Philmont and Tulsa's 23-story Philtower to the Boy Scouts, donated most of his other real estate to worthy causes, and retired in 1945 to California...
...army's retraining program is far behind schedule, and there are nagging symptoms of anarchy to come. In an African nation whose three principal cities are about as far apart as Tulsa, Detroit and Jacksonville, there is also the problem of enforcing central government rule among remote tribesmen-an effort that the U.N. soldiers and civilians assisted...