Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commission lawyers to see why Goldfine's East Boston Co. was under investigation...
...that Adams had in fact done his friend any good in any of his Government troubles. Be that as it may, Goldfine understood how the Adams friendship let him wheel and deal. "He told me," testified Goldfine's latter-day enemy John Fox, publisher of the Boston Post, in court in April, "that as long as he had Sherman Adams in his pocket he could do it." An old hand at politics, Adams knew Washington well, and he would have been an unknowing man indeed not to realize that interest on the part of the "Assistant President" could carry...
...gone off to New Hampshire to deliver a baccalaureate address to Holderness school (for boys) on "the questions the Bible tells us shall be asked on Judgment Day" when the House investigators introduced into evidence photostatic copies of Adams' paid-up hotel bills. He secretly slipped into Boston for a three-hour lunch with Old Friend Bernie Goldfine. Then he flew back to Washington to draw up a 766-word statement to the House subcommittee, sent it to the President, who, Press Secretary Hagerty announced, "thinks that these are the full facts...
...from Steerage. In the spring of 1897, Bernard, then 7½, landed with his mother from the old Rotterdam's steer age to take up residence in the tenement slums of East Boston. Bright little Bernie skipped every other grade at Lyman Grammar School, put in a year at Mechanic Arts High School before a brother's death made him pick up a bread winner's load in his close, protective Jewish family. To get his first job at the age of 14, he started one morning in the center of Boston's business district...
...picked up other choice buys over the years, acquired a pair of real estate companies. East Boston Co. and Boston Port Development Co., and land later to be developed for expansion of the city's tiny airport. As he rounded out his first million, he bought a fashionable home for his wife and four children in suburban Chestnut Hill...