Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shot at the Senator? Kaiser fancied that he had three very good reasons: 1) he had been fired from his policeman's job in April and a Bricker appointee had taken his place; 2) when he had been wiped out in the crash of an Ohio building & loan firm 15 years ago, the name of Ohio's then Attorney General, John Bricker, had appeared on all the papers that spelled his financial ruin; 3) Bricker had done nothing to help him get his job or his money back...
Dewey supporters knew they would have to pile up enough votes to win the nomination on an early ballot, before any such combustion could take place. To that end they tried to parlay a firm core of Dewey delegates into an illusion of Dewey's inevitability, thus roll up an overwhelming slate of backers well ahead of time. The kind of delegates they wanted were stampede-proof, blitz-proof, down-the-line Dewey...
...Dardanella (he wrote the lyrics) sold an alltime high of six million records and almost two million copies of sheet music. He organized the Fred Fisher Music Co., grossed nearly $1,000,000 in his first year. Later, as a manager of another Tin Pan Alley firm (Harms), Fred Fisher had such hopefuls as George Gershwin and Jerome Kern on his staff...
...dealings with one Harold A. Karsten, formerly known as A. H. Karatz, a fellow promoter of the Tucker Car Corp. Tucker had attempted to conceal the Karsten connection, said SEC, because of Karsten's "criminal record."* Karsten introduced Tucker to Floyd D. Cerf Co., Inc., a Chicago underwriting firm, and later helped him negotiate his lease for the $70 million surplus Chicago Dodge plant from the War Assets Administration...
...return, Tucker promised Karsten 10% of the class B promotional stock, a distributorship in Southern California, and a monthly salary of $2,000 until Tucker started delivering cars. To camouflage payments to him, said SEC, Tucker overpaid a public-relations firm which kicked back some of the money to Karsten...