Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frankly, Murphy was no great shakes at the box office, a fact well realized by his boss, MGM's Louis B. Mayer. But Mayer liked Murphy for other reasons. As a two-term president of the Screen Actors Guild, Murphy had helped clean out left-wingers and labor racketeers who had infiltrated the movie industry. Along the way, Murphy dropped his Democratic affiliation and became a Republican. Mayer, an ardent Republican himself, had heard Murphy deride Democrats, and he liked the cut of George's gibe. He encouraged Murphy to take on after-dinner speaking assignments. Before...
...members of the Boston School Committee have resisted the proposed plan because they see such a move as an encroachment of the federal government into the local level. Others, according to Mayer, object on moral grounds. "Their attitudes are reminiscent of the English landlords during the Irish famine of 1847. They think feeding undernourished children would be bad for their moral fibre...
Providing free lunches is no disgrace and should not be thought of as "sending children to the poorhouse," Mayer said...
...major city that has refused to take advantage of President Kennedy's Emergency Food Distribution Program. Under this plan needy persons receive assistance from the Government with only a token payment. With the refusal of local authorities to cooperate with either program "kids get it in the neck twice," Mayer said. But Mayer claimed that both programs could be set up effectively within a few months. "I see no reason," he said, "why Boston school-children couldn't have some kind of lunch program by September...
Professor Mayer will testify before the Boston Finance Commission on July 14 to present specific proposals...