Word: wolfson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis Wolfson, who normally loves the spotlight, was busy dodging it. He ducked a senatorial subpoena ordering him to testify in the strike of the Wolfson-controlled Capital Transit Co., which has forced thousands of Washingtonians to hitch rides or walk to work during the past two weeks. Despite the inconvenience, Washingtonians seemed almost solidly against Employer Wolfson and in favor of his employees, striking for a 25?-an-hour pay hike and other benefits. Crying that Wolfson was an "economic carpetbagger," Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse introduced a bill to strip Capital Transit of its franchise...
...money come from?" Most Washingtonians had no answer for this; they did, however, know where Capital Transit's money had gone. In 1949, when the North American Co. had to sell off Capital Transit under the death-sentence clause of the Public Utility Holding Companies Act. Louis Wolfson and friends bought control (46.5% of the shares) for $2,189,160. Capital Transit was a conservative old company, with a fund of more than $6,000,000 set aside for a rainy day. Since 1942, it had been paying a $2-a-year dividend, but dwindling earnings had forced...
...strike, Capital Transit blamed the District of Columbia Public Utilities Commission, which had refused the company permission for its fourth fare rise since Wolfson took over...
Seventh Heaven (music and lyrics by Victor Young and Stella Unger; book by Victor Wolfson and Miss Unger; based on the play by Austin Strong) never, with the help of music, achieves the schmalz that the play and movie versions achieved without it. The idyl of a young girl of the Paris slums and a sort of young king of the sewers-who comes home blind, at the end, after World War I-leaves the audience not only dry-eyed but pretty heavy-lidded. It even lacks the appeal of something sweetly out of date. The reason, perhaps, - is that...
...Although Wolfson is removed from the normal hustle of Cambridge living, he is not a remote figure. He has a warmth that commands affection, and some strong likes and dislikes that testify to his this-worldliness. He interests himself in his students and used to serve them tea in his Prescott Street apartment--a custom which may have been crimped by his penchant for keeping books in the icebox. To his Cambridge friends of many years he has become something "rare and special." To even a casual acquaintance, he is a compelling figure...