Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...increase, Tennessee Gas paid his law firm $60,444. The Chicago law firm of Jake Arvey, Illinois political kingpin, Democratic national committeeman, and an Adlai Stevenson stalwart in 1952 and 1956, got $15,000. Since neither was listed as attorney in the case, the FPC examiner who had recommended the increase wanted to know what they had done for the money. Said Tennessee Gas Vice President Ronald McVey: "When either of them encounters any situation which they believe would affect the company's welfare, they immediately advise the company and recommend a course of action to be pursued...
...relentlessly press the issue of civil rights and party regularity. Soon, he will announce the appointment of Eleanor Roosevelt as.chairman of a new group to draft some stiff civil rights platform proposals. The chances are "very strong" that he will send forth "task forces" of lawyers to investigate and recommend reprisals against the seven skittish Southern states which have indicated they may revolt rather than swallow a too-bitter civil rights pill...
...married to Zsa Zsa Gabor," he confides, "I lived in her sumptuous Bel Air mansion as a sort of paying guest." Communicating with Zsa Zsa was never easy, since she seemed to do almost everything under a hair dryer. But once she did come out long enough to recommend a good analyst for poor darling George. "In due course he not only cured me of my obsessional impulses and my periodic backaches, but he also cured...
...break up the rigid hierarchical structure that Pechiney shared with many European businesses, De Vitry gave the firm a divisional setup much like General Motors', streamlined administration, pruned departments that had only tradition to recommend them. He brought in young men, gave them a great deal of liberty. Says he: "I think that confidence produces far better results than surveillance." In addition to a productivity bonus that nets employees an average 30% over their base pay, Pechiney last Christmas gave employees nearly 32,000 shares worth $2,000,000 on the Paris Bourse...
...with this unusual classified ad, it drew 31 replies. Many a former mental patient clipped the ad and answered it later, and there was a total of no replies. Industrial Psychiatrist W. Ray Poindexter Jr. found, after a 2½-hour screening session for each applicant, that he could recommend more than half for jobs either in the factory or at home. This week eight women and one man so selected were at work on the Berkeley assembly line of B & K Enterprises, making toys, while eight women and three men were doing similar assembly work at home...