Word: gilberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear that the postponement had not brought the two sides any closer to agreement. J. E. ("Doc") Wolfe, chief negotiator for all of the 195 companies involved, said at a press conference that the unions were still trying hard to "blackjack" the railroads into an agreement. H. E. ("Ed") Gilbert, president of the 80,000-member A.F.L.-C.I.O. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, declared in a speech that "management's attitude of 'no bargaining' has brought the collective bargaining process in our industry to the brink of destruction...
Died. .William Alfred Foyle, 78, founder in 1904 (with Brother Gilbert) of W. & G. Foyle, Ltd., world's largest bookstore with 4,000,000 volumes stashed in seven London buildings, a flamboyant cockney who once shocked bibliophiles by selling his wares at tuppence per pound, another time offered to buy the books Adolf Hitler was burning (no reply), and subsequently got his own revenge by using copies of Mein Kampf to protect his roofs during the blitz; of a stroke; in Essex, England...
...collectors have earned a reputation as quiet and retiring types, they have sometimes proved to be less than perfect models for the kiddies. A one-penny Mauritius "Post Office" Red recently sold in England for $23,800 is known to have belonged to an unlikely philatelist, Manhattan Financier Eddy Gilbert, before he fled to Brazil in last year's E. L. Bruce scandal. And in 1892, a Parisian named Hector Giroux was so anxious to get his hands on the Hawaiian Missionary auctioned last week that he went to Fellow Collector Gaston Leroux, who had the stamp, and murdered...
...Gilbert Fitzhugh, president, Metropolitan Life Insurance...
...them take refuge in the safety of "cautious optimism"-but the accent is on optimism. William Allan Patterson. 63, the breezy former banker who heads United Air Lines, feels "a great weight lifting from my shoulders" as a result of the economy's pickup. Metropolitan Life Insurance President Gilbert Fitzhugh, 53, who puts in an 80-hour week investing the insurance savings of 44 million Americans and Canadians, thinks that nowadays "individual businessmen are more optimistic than the economists." John F. Gordon, 63, an Annapolis-trained engineer who climbed the corporate stairs to the presidency of General Motors, sees...