Word: doeskin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the spring of 1957, law-enforcement agencies have been trying to unravel the complex dealings of Fancy Financier Lowell McAfee Birrell, 52, who promoted his way to control of 40 companies, mainly through top posts at Swan-Finch Oil Corp. and Doeskin Products, Inc. Last week a New York County grand jury indicted Birrell on 69 counts of grand larceny, alleged that he stole stock worth $14 million from the two companies...
...lawyer, began his jiggery-pokery after he got control of Swan-Finch in 1954. He increased the oil company's shares and exchanged them for the assets of other firms. The indictment charges that one of his biggest coups, the exchange of 700,000 shares of Doeskin Products stock in 1957 for 1,140,390 shares of Keta Gas & Oil Co., a Swan-Finch subsidiary, was accomplished "by presenting a fraudulent document." Birrell, the indictment charges, signed papers that he would not sell the Doeskin stock publicly, then went ahead and disposed of some of it at reduced prices...
...teacher of the man who taught Van's first teacher-his mother), made his debut in St. Petersburg. Wearing Pope Pius IX's Order of the Golden Spur over his white cravat, his immaculate dress coat clanking with his other medals, his "shapely white hands" encased in doeskin gloves, he appeared, tossing his shoulder-length blond hair, before an audience of 3,000, who greeted him with "thunderous applause such as had not been heard in Russia for over a century." The pianist who has been evoking that sort of reception for a month from Riga to Kiev...
...magazine, pamphlets, books, and about 15 speeches a month (TIME, Nov. 1). Last week Dr. Peale, on a new daily radio program over NBC (10:05-10:15 a.m., E.S.T.), became the first Protestant minister ever sponsored by a commercial company over a regular nationwide radio network. The sponsor: Doeskin, Inc. ("Makers of so-gentle Doeskin Facial Tissues"). On the program Dr. Peale answers correspondents' questions about religion as well as about their personal problems, an area in which he feels religion is deeply concerned...
Dreadful Performance. Tynan's professionalism consisted of purple doeskin suits, gold satin shirts and floppy velvet cravats. At Oxford Union debates, where he starred, he occasionally turned a handstand on the speaker's rostrum. He celebrated his 21st birthday by hiring a barge and floating a party down the Isis. Oxonians were both so outraged and fascinated by his eccentricities that they burned him in effigy-in a plum-colored suit. In mocking outrage, Tynan got a car and drove headlong through the bonfire...