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...John Ernest Toole, told an investigating Senate subcommittee that in 1944 he was chief loan analyst for the old Small War Plants Corp. One of his last official acts was approval of a $1,671,000 loan to the American Lithofold Corp. of St. Louis. Immediately afterward, he became Lithofold's treasurer. Nothing illegal about that. Besides, no one was questioning Toole's integrity. The committee was interested in what he remembered about American...
...None Other ..." Soon afterward, a poor worker, José Trigo Villar, and his wife Concepción came to the home to adopt a child. They chose blue-eyed, blonde-curled Maria. "You are taking away a real marquesita" said one of the nurses at the home. José Trigo remembered the remark often during the next quarter-century when, hounded by poverty and civil war, he tramped up & down Spain in search of a living...
...There I was," said Farouk afterward, "lined up behind the desk with my staff on one side. They came in, and Lampson lined up his staff on the other side, and he started talking. I looked around, and then I signed Nahas' appointment as Premier." As the British Ambassador prepared to leave, Farouk said coldly: "Sir Miles, you will regret this...
...shoestring was the one-man Los Angeles machine shop which he started in 1913. Born in Latvia, Harvey had learned the machinist's trade in Germany before coming to the U.S. at 20. His shop prospered with World War I orders for parts for the Curtiss "Jenny," afterward, did a tidy business machining brass and aluminum parts. World War II's demand for aluminum plane parts spread his company over four small plants. At war's end, when the $8,000,000 Bohn Aluminum & Brass war plant at Torrance, Calif, became surplus, he snatched...
...untroubled as his landscapes. The son of a portraitist, he early decided on art for his own career. After working with his father, he attended art school in Gloucester, set out for Paris at 22. Wilson Steer was not impressed. He found Paris full of fleas and smelly streets, afterward dismissed the French countryside as "damn silly." He did not bother to master the language or look into the brouhaha of impressionism that was turning French art topsy-turvy...