Word: deegan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatest value and, I think, the greatest worth to his country." The President then awarded the Distinguished Service Medal to "Ted" Clifton, military aide to both Johnson and Kennedy, who was retiring from the Army at 51 to become executive vice president of Manhattan's Thomas J. Deegan Co. Inc., a public relations firm...
...around Manhattan Island. They stared in utter disbelief at the vast automobile crematoriums of The Bronx, where the dead cars are piled up beside the Harlem River in unstable pyramids. Almost every dancer has a camera-movie or still. Awed by the triple run of traffic on the Major Deegan Expressway, they hastened to record the incredible sight. A sparkling cabin cruiser roared insolently by. A male dancer asked if it was privately owned. "Yes," said an interpreter. The dancer grunted: "It figures...
...tried to bar Benny's ig-year-old daughter Rachel from going backstage, thinking she was one of the local cats. Said Good-Wilier Good man: "It shows a terrible weakness on their part, doesn't it?" Back from an eleven-day Far Eastern swing, Thomas J. Deegan Jr., 51, chair man of the $225 million New York World's Fair of 1964-65, had reason to gloat. Private groups in Britain, France, Italy, West Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands had just ordered space for exhibits. South Korea signed up, and so did Japan and Hong Kong...
Guest lecturers took particular delight in separating theory from practice for the benefit of their students. John M. Deegan, Democratic campaign manager for Hudson County, earned the nickname "Honest John" after telling the class a first law of politics: "If businessmen don't contribute [to campaign funds], business won't be so good next year." Acknowledging that his own organization spent $250,000 in a Senate campaign, more than double the legal limit, he shrugged: "Nobody pays attention to those things...