Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agents traced some 80 sales totaling more than 9,000,000 silver pesos, with an estimated profit of more than $1,000,000. All the silver had been turned over to a notorious smuggler named Roberto Maese, who moved it across the border to El Paso. Each deal had at least two profitable angles: 1) it evaded the export tax; 2) the bank sent out old-style silver pesos, whose metal value is now higher than the face value, and replaced them in its own accounts with paper money...
...Portland, Ore., Mrs. Roosevelt's first great-grandchild, three-week-old Nicholas ("Little Bear") Seagraves put on a below-par performance at an old F.D.R. sport: posing for a horde of photographers. While parents "Sistie" (White House moppet during the early New Deal) and Van Seagraves beamed over his public sendoff, Nicholas snoozed through the flashbulbs...
...steelmen tried to say so, they put their foot in it. "[The] irregular procedure," said Bethehem Steel Corp.'s President Arthur B. Hgmer, "appears to be designed merely as a vehicle for forcing upon us important concessions." He was cut short by Board Member Samuel Rosenman, ex-New Deal brain-truster.* "Am I to understand," he asked, "that because other boards recommended an increase, you assume that we necessarily were set up for [that] purpose...
...admired the rank & file fighters although, in a sense, he was their prisoner. No guerrilla band could make a move, nor its leaders a decision, without an O.K. from party headquarters. It took months for Chapman to get a suggestion to the party bigwigs and their reply; a good deal of the time was spent in enforced and irritating idleness. He was always admired but always a little suspect, and could not move from band to band without permission. He quickly discovered that the real power in each group lay not with the military leader but with the political commissar...
...right down to it, the thing that broke up the Gregory marriage was the death of F.D.R. John Gregory, for ten years a devoted New Deal bureaucrat, felt "as if this death were a sword that he must take to his bosom, slowly, inch by inch." John's neglected wife Ellen suffered no such heroic tortures. A rich woman who had married John when he was a poor college instructor, she called Roosevelt "That Man." Her grief was of another kind. The Gregorys' son Timmy had been killed in the war and for that tragedy she split...