Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...action capped a series of disturbing events touched off a month ago, when OPS discovered that Illinois racketeers were making fat profits by selling horse meat (ceiling price 14?) at the 59? ceiling for ground beef. Charles W. Wray was fired as boss of the state's Division of Food and Dairies after confessing that he had accepted some $3,500 in bribes from the racketeers. Since then, nine of Wray's inspectors have been fired and four restaurants closed down. Five separate investigations are under way, and two grand juries will soon get into the act. This...
Michael V. Di Salle resigned as mayor of Toledo in December 1950, to become head of the U.S. Office of Price Stabilization. It was a job that nobody seemed to want, and Washington skeptics thought that the fat, funny man-until then unknown outside of Ohio-would soon be scurrying for home. But he was well-equipped with a warming sense of humor, an impressive courage and a knowledge of practical politics. The rest of the country, he said, is "just an extension of Toledo...
Howe is a restless man of great administrative ability who wants to get things done. But he has none of the air of haste and bustle that surrounds some U.S. businessmen. He is deliberate in manner, though quick in judgment. There is little fat on his chunky (5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.) frame. He has what New Englanders call a "down-East memory," and uses phonetic spelling, e.g., his lunch chit at Ottawa's Rideau Club once read: "plane omelet and rasin pie." He is an optimist, especially about Canada. Of his first view of Canada...
...once complacently defined good government as one in which 50? of the taxpayer's dollar went to the state and 50? into the politicians' pockets. And the tradition comes down to very recent times. Three years ago, when Dwight Green was governor, the boodling pols still waxed fat in the land. Nevertheless, in its 133 years, the state has had some really good governors. One was John Peter Altgeld, "the eagle forgotten." One was Henry Horner, a great Depression governor. And Illinois has a good governor now: Adlai* Ewing Stevenson, a political amateur turned pro. In his three...
Mellern did not have a gas chamber, but it had a crematorium and it worked overtime. Fat Obersturmbannführer Neubauer, the camp's director, had a chauffeured Mercedes, a Hitler mustache and a good stock of real cigars. He had persuaded himself that his was the most "humane" camp in the Third Reich. Weber, the assistant who actually ran Mellern, despised such sentiments; he frankly enjoyed turning living skeletons into dead ones...