Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tycoon. To his Nevada neighbors, E. L. Cord is the Democratic state senator from Esmeralda County, where jack rabbits outnumber the 430 registered voters. But in other parts of the U.S., Cord's name has other meanings. Automobile buffs remember the Cord 812, with its front drive, its classic lines and its $2,395 price tag* as one of the finest U.S. cars ever produced. Wall Street remembers Cord as the golden negotiator and operating man who put the Auburn Automobile Co. in the black, and held substantial interests in American Airways, Lycoming Manufacturing, New York Shipbuilding and Stinson...
...during his 40 frenzied financial years Errett Lobban Cord made a fetish of personal privacy, kept his door closed to all interviewers, stayed out of the gossip columns and away from all but a chosen few friends. It was only when he went into politics two years ago that Cord suddenly emerged as a hail fellow who obviously enjoyed his new role...
...Open Door. Cord's political start came when he was appointed to fill a vacancy in the state senate from Esmeralda County; he explains his decision to accept as a simple matter of civic consciousness. Cord quickly began moving into the Democratic power vacuum created by the 1954 death of U.S. Senator Pat McCarran. He won labor support by pushing through a bill hiking unemployment benefits from $50 to $75 a week. He found favor with Nevada's powerful gambling interests by leading the fight for a bill giving them new tax benefits (the bill was vetoed...
Last week, in the town where Pat Mc-Carran fell dead after making a speech, Cordmen and Nevada's remaining anti-Cord Democrats fought for control of McCarran's party. The anti-Cords won a few skirmishes. But at convention's close, Cord's men were in command. They had won majority control of the Democratic state central committee; rammed through was a platform that clearly mirrored Cord's position on such issues as gambling (for relaxed laws), foreign aid (for less) and aid to education (for more). What most of the delegates wanted...
Potbellied Boat. When he was a five-year-old kid in Long Branch, N.J., Tom Gifford's father had to tie him up with sash cord to keep him from going fishing. "There wasn't a seafaring man in the family," he recalls, "and I collected blisters on my bottom because I wouldn't stay away from the water." After a stretch in the Navy during World War I, "Mom wanted me to be President and the old man wanted me to be an admiral. Me, I wanted to be a charter boatman. I bought a backyard...