Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announced that the President had neither known nor approved of any "assistance" he might have given business firms. He denied ever helping Five-Percenter James V. Hunt, or even having business connections with his good friend, Fixer John Maragon, who had made a good thing out of his White House connections (TIME, Sept. 5). He brushed the famed seven deep freezers off as gifts which were "an expression of friendship and nothing more . . ." He swore that he had never taken a dishonest nickel...
...point, when Senator McCarthy asked him if Fixer John Maragon had ever given him campaign contributions from Racket King Frankie Costello, Vaughan did a double take, which would have been a credit to Comedian Oliver Hardy. "Am I supposed to. know Frankie Costello?" he asked. "I have heard of people named Costello . . . May I ask, who is 'Frank Costello...
...stop work on the book he was writing, offered to get him the money to pay back whatever advances had been made. Pirogov was scornful. As they left, Pirogov said: "Tell them thanks for their offer of money and for finding such a fool in you. If we ever meet again, it will be as bitter enemies." Barsov replied: "The embassy says it makes no difference if it's five or ten years-Pirogov will be back in the Soviet Union. I will watch you swing in Moscow's Red Square...
Tito had a heavy tan, which made his white-streaked blond hair seem even lighter in color, but he did not look 57. His face was just as mobile as ever, and his harsh look would melt into a ready laugh as he used his hands to emphasize a point. He appeared to be enjoying life, and if he felt under any strain it was not apparent. He wore dazzling white flannel slacks and a pale blue sport shirt embroidered with the monogram...
...enterprise, an increase in the present bounty of a half ana (1?) for each rat caught. Others objected that if the bounty were raised, it would pay the city's poor to go into the business of rat-raising and Bombay would wind up with more rats than ever. Councillor Gordhandas Goculdas Moraji, an orthodox Hindu, shuddered at even considering rat extermination during the current festival in honor of Ganapati (Ganesha), an elephant-headed god who likes to ride around on a rat (see cut). Councillor Dinkar Dattatrya gave what he called the "socialist theory on rats": he declared...