Word: borning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Albert M. Greenfield, onetime Republican and heavy contributor to the Vare machine, who switched allegiance in 1932. Born in the Ukraine in 1887, Greenfield is one of the biggest real-estate operators in the country, controls banks, department stores, a candy store chain (Loft), theaters and several of Philadelphia's big hotels. He is active in both Christian and Jewish charities, a prime promoter of National Brotherhood Week. He was vice chairman of Johnson's fund-raising committee. During the campaign, he got an SOS: funds were so low that the Democrats could broadcast only 15 minutes...
...Government, which had failed twice to kick Australian-born Harry Bridges out of the country as a Communist, was at it again. Last week in San Francisco, a federal grand jury indicted the Longshoremen's Boss Bridges for perjury. Said Bridges, with the air of a man who was weary of it all: "It's no surprise." But the Government thought this time it might prove...
Indicted with Bridges were two of his . International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's lieutenants. They are Texas-born Vice President J. R. ("Bob") Robertson and German-born Henry ("The Dutchman") Schmidt, who is currently running Bridges' four-week-old tie-up of Hawaiian shipping...
...York) to Prince Aly Khan, a demigod to five million Moslems of the Ismaili sect, and heir to one of the biggest fortunes in the world.* Though Rita was still the wife of onetime Wonder Boy Orson Welles, and Aly had not yet severed his marital tie with British-born Joan Yarde-Buller (exwife of Brewing Heir Thomas Loel Guinness), the lovers showed all the symptoms of sophomores in the throes of their first passion...
...Maulden, virtue personified, is trying to locate his victim, born in Illinois, living in New York, and a Navy veteran...