Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allequist, heavy and fat...
...Hines received long lines of favor seekers and job hunters. Dispensing money, making "contracts," Jimmy ran his quickly growing empire with smiling aplomb and efficient service. Smarting under Al Smith's attempt to run Tammany, Hines backed Franklin Roosevelt for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1932, won a fat reward that left Tammany with tongue drooping; F.D.R. handed him the job of dispensing all federal patronage in Manhattan...
...Right now, we're not covering anything bigger than a bed," grinned the Portland Oregonian's Reporter Wallace Turner last week. "We're just sitting around with fat, happy smiles on our faces." Reporters seldom earn so rich a right to sit and grin as have Wally Turner, 36, and his Oregonian teammate, William Lambert, 37. Since the day in February 1956 when Rackets Promoter James ("Big Jim") Elkins told the reporting team about his conspiracy with Teamsters Union officials to operate a profitable vice empire in Portland, Turner and Lambert had toiled heroically to document...
...succession, Barr formed a new department to pump life into merchandising and displays at Ward's 562 retail stores, expanded Ward's advertising-and-promotion staff, started pushing sales on credit and Ward's own private brands of paint, bicycles, fishing gear, etc. Working with the fat cash reserves piled up by penny-pinching, expansion-shy Chairman Avery ($21.8 million in cash, $176 million in securities), Barr's management team more than doubled its metropolitan phone-order stations, last year alone added another 132 catalogue order stores. Still another new management division, working on a five...
...When the free world labor movement fights for social justice against poverty and hunger...it does more to fight communism in one week than all the fat cats of Wall Street do in their whole lives because they stand in the way of progress...