Word: desaix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Times); and the late, brilliant Edward E. Free. But Scientific American has been dominated by the family which has owned and published it through almost its entire career, the Manhattan Munns, one of Ward McAllister's original "400." Present editor and publisher (third in the line) is Orson Desaix Munn, 61, a patent lawyer, crack bird hunter and fisherman, rumba fancier, familiar figure in Manhattan café society. He passes on everything that goes into the magazine...
Senator George, who moved from Foreign Relations to the chairmanship of Finance, knows the power of money. He knows that more than $200,000,000 worth of gold, sneaked out of France at the collapse, is stowed away in Fort Desaix at Fort-de-France...