Word: fixer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the war he played both sides of a Socialist split, formed his own group in Aubervilliers, married the simple, homely daughter of Socialist Leader Dr. Georges Claussat. He has since kept Madame Laval in the background. He began to prosper as a legal fixer, moved to a swank home in Paris, wangled an amnesty law for defeatists through the Chamber, and snuggled up to influential Joseph Caillaux...
...principal credit for spotlighting forced saving: 1) Leon Henderson, OPA price fixer, talked ominously last February about the "inflationary gap." This year, said Henderson, in round figures, our spendable national income will amount to $80 billions. Only $65 billions of consumable goods (1941 prices) will be available. 2) England's urbane, puckish, innovating economist, J. M. Keynes, originally detonated the deferred-pay bombshell in November 1939. The Exchequer pooh-poohed Keynes in 1940, but put a part of his idea into the 1941-42 budget...
...Gamelin, The Mystery of Leopold, etc.) appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, they began to realize that self-important little Jules Romains was also one of the most curious characters the period between the two world wars produced: that he was Europe's most indefatigable and unsuccessful peace-fixer, whose naivete was only equaled by his Tom Sawyerish delight in conspiracy...
...featured is "Parole Fixer," in which Eddie Hoover's G-Men go gang-busting for the umpteenth time...
Outraged Justice Conway fined Al Warner $500, jailed him for 60 days. Sheriff William Pollack, after much delay, fired Deputy Warner, two of the women assigned to Mrs. Muscarella, and the deputy who did nothing about the "fixer." Unhappily for Sheriff Pollack, public indignation was not appeased. "In the interest of law and order in Erie County," the Buffalo Evening News last week proposed that the New York Legislature let Erie County elect no more sheriffs, perhaps substitute a non-political employe under Civil Service. Buffalo and Erie County have come a long way since 1872. Their sheriff then...