Jack and Witt underwrote countless municipal bond issues and backed politicians as diverse as Orval Faubus (Arkansas governor from 1955--67) and Bill Clinton.
"Fables of Faubus" shows how Mingus occasionally butted heads with corporate supervisors: The composer wrote a libretto that further castigated Orville Faubus, the segregationist governor of Arkansas, but Columbia refused to let him record the text (the title itself was nervy enough in that buttoned-down era).