Word: granting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Grant Moves South, Catton...
...behind the demonstrations at both meetings is James Peck, 45, editor of CORE'S Corelator. Despite his two latest setbacks, Peck believes that attending company meetings produces results, says his pleas helped to cause W. T. Grant to open its lunch counters in Baltimore to Negroes and Greyhound to end segregated bus seating. "I attended Greyhound annual meetings for nine years straight," says Peck. "Finally, we won." Even before the demonstrations last week, both Kress and Woolworth had stopped excluding Negroes from lunch counters in San Antonio, Galveston and Nashville. Kress has desegregated in Austin. Negotiations to desegregate...
...slickness that made him a leading figure in Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal brain trust. He talked so fast and so long for two days that he confused and angered the committee; he insisted that he had "a perfect right" to try to sway the FPC to grant a license to Midwestern Gas Transmission Co., a Tennessee Gas subsidiary, for a $52 million pipeline...
...Chairman Jerome Kuykendall. Explained Corcoran: "I told Mr. Kuykendall, 'Mr. Symonds still wants the 7%, but if you will look at the procedural suggestion made in the closing argument, maybe it won't be necessary to face that problem now.' " The suggestion was for FPC to grant the permit, fix the rate later. That is what FPC did. Corcoran said Symonds criticized him for talking "too softly." Added Corcoran in an aggrieved tone: "I'm wondering if it isn't improper if a lawyer doesn't take care of his client...
...Weeks in Another Town, Shaw (9) NONFICTION 1. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (1) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 3. The Law and the Profits, Parkinson (3) 4. The Enemy Within, Kennedy (4) 5. Act One, Hart (7) 6. I Kid You Not, Paar 7. Grant Moves South, Catton (6) 8. Born Free, Adamson (8) 9. The Joy of Music, Bernstein 10. My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Flynn...