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...founded by Albert Benton Shoemake, 59, a Waco insurance promoter, who had gone broke with another insurance company in 1938. In 1945 he founded U.S. Trust & Guaranty under an old Texas law that permitted him to charter an insurance company to handle some banking too, thereby duck regular bank-examiners' inspections. His insurance charter should have been issued only after he filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. But U.S. Trust & Guaranty never took out a corporate license. Shoemake promised 5% returns on "certified drafts," claimed that these deposits were 100% backed with cash reserves and investments...
Deep in the heart of Texas as a ranch guest of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Tennessee's prowling Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver showed that he can shoot as straight as Tennessee's Davy Crockett-even without his coonskin hat. Hunter Kefauver blasted at a duck with a shotgun, scored a clean miss...
...ready to do that, too (six Baptists were on the Scopes trial jury). Neither priest nor church nor neighbor might come between a Baptist and his God. This could lead to a deep personal religion, and it could also produce a welter of small, off-beat sects, e.g., the Duck River, General Six-Principle, Primitive or Hard Shell, and Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists. And all this spiritual nonconformity was often matched by an ironbound, triple-riveted social conformity, designed to keep everything and everybody in its place-especially the Negro...
...learn to save ground, to steal it; if an opening pops up on the rail, you learn to drop in there quick. A lot of tired old horses run on the bull rings, but you learn you can win on 'em if you can get 'em to duck in or out at the right moment. Another thing: the stewards are not so strict. You can ride the way you want to, pretty much...
Soak the Executive. Nobody offered any evidence that labor's rank and file duck overtime work to keep out of higher tax brackets, but many an industrialist feels that the up-to-87% bite out of top management salaries is harmful. "The effectiveness of the money incentive is being eroded by the tax rates in the upper brackets," said Crawford H. Greenewalt, president of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co.; "there are signs among the younger men that promotion is a little less attractive than it used to be ... When a promising young business executive decides that...