Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three children rose to inspect Easter baskets and search for eggs in the house and later in the woods behind the presidential cottage. After breakfast, the grownups, dressed in their Easter finest, went to church. Afterward, the President laid the cornerstone for a new church building. A building contractor in the crowd commented on his dexterity with the silver trowel. "I used to do it on the farm," Ike explained with a grin...
...whirlwind next struck at Tommy's parking garages and in a few gusts forced him to quit the gubernatorial race. A contractor named Dominic Piracci, who seemed to have a corner on the city's garage-building business, was convicted of fraud, conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Piracci and Tommy had long been friends, even before Piracci's daughter, Margie, married Tommy D'Alesandro...
When Archie Alexander, a lifelong Republican, landed one day last week in pastel-painted Charlotte Amalie, the sign on the hangar that says "Harry S. Truman Airport" was tactfully shrouded by a big welcome banner. Next day Alexander, a Negro contractor from Des Moines, climbed up on the back seat of a crimson Chevrolet convertible and headed a brass-band parade up the Kronprindsensgade (Crown Prince Street) and down the Dronningensgade (Queen Street). At the Emancipation Garden where the Danes* freed their slaves in 1848, he was sworn in as the first Republican governor of the Virgin Islands...
Depreciation Allowance. In Copenhagen, looking for a Danish bride, Minnesota Contractor Leo Larsen, 45, told reporters that his "dream wife" must 1) be able to pay half her ticket to the U.S., 2) have had her appendix removed, 3) wear false teeth, because: "I don't want any unforeseen expenses...
...started in 1952 when a wealthy Italian contractor named Paolo Masieri commissioned Architect Wright to design a building as a memorial to Masieri's son Angelo, killed in an automobile accident in the U.S. The new palazzo was to be used as a study center and quarters for architectural students. A site was chosen on the Grand Canal between the magnificent 15th century Ca' Foscari, once a residence of the doges, and the 16th century Palazzo Balbi. The house which Wright's palazzo would replace is a dingy brownstone residence...