Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rise & fall of the Union Indemnity group was written in the last ten years. But its roots go deep in New Orleans lore, back to the Brothers Vaccaro-Joseph, Lucca and Felix-who emigrated from Italy some 40 years ago to found one of the greatest fortunes on the Gulf Coast. Old Joe Vaccaro started as a field hand on a plantation far down the Mississippi Delta. His daughter married one Salvador...
...insurance agency inherited from their father. Mike Moss persuaded the Vaccaros to invest their millions in things other than bananas. They bought the famed Grunewald Hotel, paying for it with Liberty Bonds dug out of a safety deposit box. They rebuilt it as the Roosevelt, "biggest hotel in the Deep South." Mike Moss, a tun-bellied man with a tiny bald head, was made manager. The Vaccaros backed Union Indemnity with slender, bespectacled, drawling Brother Irving Moss as president. New Orleans, where race is viewed frankly, chuckled: "Watch what happens now! The Jews have got their hooks in the Dagoes...
...Deep in an armchair, with a cocktail at my elbow, I relished TIME'S report on Technocracy. . . . Aside from being informative, the article was TIME-worthy in another respect. Perhaps it was the amiable cocktail, but when I came to the word "obfuscated." I smiled. And when, in the same paragraph, I reached "rodomontade," I chuckled aloud...
Bandit fears and hopes have not materialized as yet but the noble ladies' passing left a deep impression on King Feisal. Last week Paul Knabenshue, U. S. Minister to Irak, forwarded to Washington a copy of His Majesty's latest police regulations. Excerpts...
...would be unjustified to predict that the healing of the wound will not leave deep and ineffaceable scars. In the six years since the last game with Princeton, Harvard has traveled a long road, leading it ever farther from the ways of the black and gold. Despite the cheery words of athletic directors about "natural rivals" and "the Big Three," apathy and the indisputable fact of the House plan, with all that it implies, may imperil the hoped-for importance of the game...