Word: casey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their teacher was Joseph E. Casey, a handsome and suave Washington lawyer and former Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts, who appeared before a Senate Banking subcommittee looking into the tangled affairs of the RFC. Casey's testimony did not concern the RFC and at times he was a reluctant witness. But pieced together with facts which the subcommittee already knew, his story was further proof that in Washington, an alert man could hear opportunity knock when the average citizen could...
...summer of 1947, Casey organized a company called the American Overseas Tanker Corp. He put $20,000 of his own money into the company and raised another $80,000 from a group of stockholders, including such gilt-edged names as the late former Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey and Julius C. Holmes, now U.S. Minister in London. Casey then made arrangements with the Maritime Commission to buy five surplus tankers (original cost: $3,000,000 each) for about $8,500,000. Next, he made an agreement to charter the tankers to a Standard...
...testimony went, Lawyer Casey's maneuvers seemed perfectly legal and aboveboard, but there were one or two points that made Colorado's Senator Edwin C. Johnson want to look further. One was his suspicion that the tankers were placed under Panamanian registry to avoid heavy U.S. income taxes. Casey and the other stockholders were only required to pay capital gains taxes at the rate of 25% of their profits...
...hitting goes," bubbled Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, "he's a big-league outfielder right now. He can run the bases, and his speed kind of keeps you on edge. His arm is so strong he doesn't have to think out there. All he'll have to do is throw the ball in." Optimistic Manager Stengel was talking about Rookie Outfielder Mickey Mantle, 19, the beaming, spring-legged kid just up from Joplin, Mo. (Class C). And by all accounts, Stengel knew what he was talking about...
Third period--Scoring: Gubbins (B) (Priestley, Casey), 8:36; White (H), (DiBlasio, Marshall), 9:53; Gubbins (B) (Sutherland), 13:18. Penalties: Maley (B) (hooking), 3:47; Wykoff (H) (board check), 11:56; Murphy (B) (cross check), 15:01; White (H) (slashing), and Maley (B) (interference), 16:48; DiBasi (B) (charging), Gilbert (B) (board check), and Marshall (H) (roughing), 17:57; Priestley (B) (interference), and Wykoff (H) (elbow check), 18:05; Sutherland (B) (tripping...