Word: fixer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pleasant to have to recall a time, only too recent, when survival itself depended on the capricious favor of hated oppressors. Yet many a transplanted European in Israel remembers well the days of Nazi power when his life and welfare hinged on the diplomatic skill of a stadlan (fixer), some fellow Jew either tactful, suave, or thick-skinned enough to curry favor with the enemy and thus win a measure of reprieve for his people. That memory, stirred by a court trial, agitated all Israel last week and brought down the Cabinet...
Young Rudolf Kastner had been a fixer in a small Hungarian town. When Admiral Horthy capitulated to Hitler in 1944, Kastner was head of Budapest's Jewish Rescue Committee. Soon after the Nazis took over, Kastner and some of his colleagues were called before Karl Eichmann, a top Nazi official, to listen to a proposition. "I want to do business," Eichmann told them. "Blood for goods, goods for blood. I am willing to sell one million Jews for ten thousand trucks, a thousand cans of coffee and tea and some soap. Go to Switzerland, Turkey, Spain-go where...
...good guys" and the "bad guys" were Republicans. Secretary Stevens, as the Administration's chief warrior, won sympathy as an earnest, long-suffering gentleman, but lost respect, perhaps irrevocably, when he told to what lengths he had gone to accommodate McCarthy, Cohn and Schine. Counselor Adams, the genial fixer, emerged as a sly fighter, but one whom Roy Cohn thought he could outwit-and nearly...
...Flat Fixer. The Gates Rubber Co. of Denver put on sale a gun that repairs flat tires by shooting a rubber compound into punctures while the tire is still on the wheel. The compound seals the hole in the tire casing and also patches the inner tube. Each Vulco-Weld Tire Gun contains enough compound to fix 50 tubeless tires or 20 regular ones. Price...
This week, after turning himself over to a smart lawyer who hustled him into a District of Columbia court, Louis Glick-field, frustrated both as player and" fixer, was free on $1,000 bail; he was preparing to fight extradition to Maryland, which has a special law covering bribery of athletes. Maximum penalty: a $5,000 fine and three years in prison...