Word: cons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wall Street brokers a year ago, never got what he thought a decent offer. Vultee's bid was made more tempting to him by two side dishes: 1) he will stay in Con-solidated-Vultee as an adviser at $60,000 annually for five years;* 2) by selling now he dodges the much higher capital gains taxes likely...
Taking a four-day (Friday to Tuesday) weekend at Hyde Park, Franklin Roosevelt had more than the color of autumn leaves on his mind. He had to con his timetable and Adolf Hitler's. He could guess at Hitler's from the week's events. The U.S. could guess at the President's timetable from three items of news which told what time...
Though Miss Turner's peaches-&-cream face is void of any marks of endeavor, she is discovered in a Western boom town. So is "Candy" Johnson (Mr. Gable), a gay con man who talks himself into and out of control of the frontier town. Although Lana is obviously overyoung to handle anyone of Actor Gable's ilk, she marries him (with reform in her eye) for better or worse. She gets worse and likes...
...Scout who goes ahead, trial balloon in hand, prowling the unexplored bushes of public opinion, whipping up sentiment pro or con whatever the President has decided the U.S. should be for or against. He is the Whipping Boy who takes the blame whenever anything goes wrong. He is the New Deal's Janitor, who cleans out the goboons and sweeps up the floor (usually using some victim as the broom). He captains the Purity Squad that keeps his colleagues honest. He is the Public Executioner, the Court Poisoner and the Bouncer. In short, if there is on the docket...
...other details of the New Order's Plünderpraxis (sack technique) were corroborated last week in Manhattan by Constantine George Cotzias, 49, Minister-Governor (Mayor) of Athens until the city fell last April. If Mayor Cotzias were in U.S. politics he would inevitably be known as Big Con, for he is 6 ft. 4 in. tall and when he steps on the scales they whimper out 286 lb. He has blazing brown eyes and a magnificent head. With him are his wife, who headed the hospitals of Athens during the gallant six-month struggle, and three children, including...