Word: crooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dinner, in the Dorchester suite, is another meeting, usually with other top-Rankers. Among them is Leslie ("Silent") Farrow, 57, a stoop-shouldered, 6 ft. 4 in. bishop's-crook of a man who is Rank's chief financial adviser. Few underlings have ever heard Farrow say anything more than "Good morning." Another aide is G. I. Woodham Smith, 51, Rank's chief counsel, who has been described as "a good lawyer, American style-he laughs all the time...
...tactics of character assassination (still standard Communist practice) against anybody who threatened his exclusive leadership. One of his victims was Wilhelm Weitling, a tailor's apprentice, one of the few proletarians who has ever become an intelligent Communist leader. Marx falsely accused Weitling of being a literary crook and hounded him to the U.S. Another target was Ferdinand Lassalle, brilliant founder of the German Social Democratic Party. Marx somewhat inconsistently referred to Lassalle as "Baron Izzy" and "the little Jew." Another victim was Michael Bakunin, an ardent Russian anarchist who threatened Marx's, control of the First International...
...columnist was tattling on his trade. "Standard practice," he wrote, "is to correct a wrong like 'Joe Blow is a crook' by printing, as many days later as is safe, something that goes 'Don't believe those things you hear about Joe Blow...
...them take the momentous step he was asking them to take. But once that result is achieved, for God's sake stop talking about checking Russia, and talk about rehabilitating Greece and giving every Greek a fair chance. If you don't do this, every loafer and crook in Greece will consider himself the ally of the American General Staff-to be fed and kept in style by. the American taxpayer. . . . See to it that the money is used for the reconstruction of [Greece] and does not get into the hands of the Athens maffia...
King of the Kitchen. His passionate people sometimes wish that he were a crook or a Casanova, a gambler or a drunk -it would be better than his correct futility. But George drinks mineral water with his meals, dislikes cards, is circumspect with women. At 31, he married beautiful Princess Elizabeth of Rumania, whose domestic accomplishments (embroidery, watercolors and cookery) distinguished her from her flamboyant mother, the late Queen Marie. Nevertheless, George's marriage ended in divorce in 1935 (Elizabeth now lives in Rumania and reportedly has grown very fat). A minimum of gossip has attended George...