Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teamed with his late brother George 'also twice a bankrupt)* in a real estate leal that came under the scrutiny of a graft-hunting investigation in New York City. For $25,000 cash the Garssons got property that was soon condemned for park extension and bought by the city...
Paper & Shells. But Murray Garsson's main chance came with the war and with Brother Henry's knowledge. Suave, well-tailored, capable brother Henry had a spotless record as a consulting engineer. His personal record was almost pure-he had been indicted and acquitted of a charge of taking a $5,000 bribe while working for the U.S. as an Internal Revenue agent; he had worked for a time with Murray on Congressman Sabath's investigating committee...
...Henry Garsson is an impressive man. A Jack-of-many-callings, he uses the handle "Doctor" (a doctorate in law from St. Lawrence University) in front of his name. He has called himself an expert on reorganizations. He and Brother Murray, as it turns out, are also experts on organizing large companies out of nothing...
First Call. In May, 1909, in fashionable Darjeeling, death called for Roy. His shy, modest wife, Bibhabati Devi, 19, wasted few tears, gave no thought to immolating herself in suttee. She had his body laid on a funeral pyre. Then she invited her brother to manage the Kumar's 100-square-mile Bengal estate and enjoy its $400,000-a-year income. The brother-in-law was too Westernized to spend much time with stable boys, but otherwise Roy's old tenants found him no better than Roy. In fact, they forgot about the stable boys...
Tito had to be flexible enough to unite Italian Communist workers with conservative Slovene farmers. His "nationalistic internationalism" says in the same breath: "Slovenes-unite with your brother Slavs in the new greater powerful Yugoslav fatherland," and "Italians-unite with the new greater international brotherhood of the proletariat-down with nationalism." He even designed a new Italian flag, with a red star in the center of the white stripe, to please the Italian Communists. But in Tito's Zone B, Italian Communists cannot display...