Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nominated to succeed Admiral Arthur W. Radford as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in August: Air Force Chief Nathan Farragut Twining, 59, first airman to hold the nation's top military...
Dutch & Lucky. On the New Deal tide Jimmy rode high. His pockets crammed with money, he fronted for an army commanded by a young man named Arthur Flegenheimer, better known to his fellow racketeers and murderers as Dutch Schultz. While Schultz and his mob prospered in bootleg whisky and the numbers racket, Hines provided the necessary protection. Uncooperative policemen were shifted to faraway beats, district attorneys obligingly quashed indictments, amiable Hines magistrates freed the small fry. Into Hines's personal treasury came -in addition to the customary kickbacks from city employees and officials-vast wads of money from Schultz...
...Pundit ARTHUR KROCK in the NEW YORK TIMES...
Interviewed by a New York World-Telegram and Sunman, plain-spoken Actor Paul (A Hole in the Head) Douglas was quoted as having said: "Now there will always be an audience of slobs for Arthur Godfrey and Ed Sullivan-the slobs who like to be patronized by the kindly big shot." Douglas' corrected version: "What I said was, there will always be an audience for slobs like Arthur Godfrey." On a quick visit to Rome, TV Impresario Sullivan, according to a CBSpokesman, heard the original version and got "very, very mad." Just blown in from an African safari, Impresario...
...after a studious survey of some mountains of gold, announced a list of the U.S.'s ten richest men and her estimates of their fortunes: No. 1: Texas' bachelor Wheeler-Dealer Sid W. Richardson, 65, $700 million. No. 2: Aluminum Co. of America's Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis, 89 and now a bustling Florida realty tycoon, $450 million. No. 3: Ford Motor Co.'s President Henry Ford II, 39, $400 million. Tied for No. 4: Sun Oil Co.'s publicity-shy Board Chairman Joseph Newton Pew Jr., 70, and Avia-tionabob Howard Hughes...