Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week's star witness before the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight investigating the relationship between Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams and Massachusetts Tycoon Bernard Goldfine: Boston Financier John...
Newspaper Days. Still in hock up to his eyebal's, Fox needed ready cash to run the Post. Up to then, the Post had been a strident critic of Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Paul A. Dever, running for reelection. Dever arranged for his friend Bernard Goldfine to extend Fox about $400,000 in credit-and the Post suddenly became one of Dever's loudest backers. Similarly, Fox had pledged the Post to support Massachusetts' Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and abruptly switched position. His story now is that after discussions with others, including Neanderthal Republican Publisher...
...time to sell short because of a falling market. A frenetic promoter, he once called in his ad manager and announced: "I've got an idea that will knock the Jews in this town on their butts. We're going to send cows to Israel." He got Bernard Goldfine to donate the first cow toward a project that fell flat only when Fox discovered that New England livestock could not survive in the Middle East climate...
...ever measured the capacity of the American people to absorb manure." John Fox, yardstick in hand and a slug of bourbon within reach, gave it a try-and drove the Post into bankruptcy court. One of those pulling the plug on Fox was Friend-Turned-Enemy Bernard Goldfine...
...troubles he blames on Bernard Goldfine-and on Goldfine's political friends, most particularly including Sherman Adams-a fact which he made abundantly plain last week in his testimony before the House subcommittee...