Word: fixer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, however, less than two years after the airing of widespread college basketball scandals, it was disclosed that a would-be fixer had tried to bribe three star players at the University of Maryland, unbeaten and ranked second in the U.S. A Maryland junior named Louis L. Glickfield, who had tried out for the squad and failed, reportedly offered bribes of $1,000 to Center Tom Cosgrove, $400 to Guard Frank Navarro, and, unaccountably, only $100 to Quarterback Jack Scarbath, the team's key ball-handler. Glickfield did not ask his ex-teammates to throw the game with...
...camel-hair bathrobe, Mohammed Mossadegh sat up in bed and received Hjalmar Schacht, chief fixer of Nazi Germany's elastic currency. In Teheran at Mossadegh's summons to take a look at Iran's Scheherazadian finances, Schacht presented Mossy with a plan to stave off bankruptcy. Main feature: increase the amount of money in circulation by 20%. He also pointed out that there was no real hope of balancing the books unless Mossy could reopen the source of nine-tenths of Iran's national income: the refinery at Abadan. Schacht added bluntly: Iranians are "lazy," ought...
...gifts" from friends. Carl F. Routzahn, an Ohio department-store executive, for example, contributed a $20,000 summer home, a $2,500 Chrysler and $400 a month in cash, delivered discreetly in small bills. And his hotel suite was paid for by Henry ("the Dutchman") Grunewald, the professional fixer who has turned up in several previous investigations...
...Fuel Fixer. An emergency fuel unit for automobiles and trucks was brought out by the Viking Tool & Machine Corp. of Belleville, NJ. The gadget, which holds one gallon of gas, is installed on the carburetor, and operates independently of the regular fuel system. It is guaranteed to start a car when it is out of gas, has a frozen or leaky gas line or a faulty fuel pump. Price...
...urbane Friedman, called to the witness stand, readily confirmed Shapiro's story. He had sold his services to a number of Boston firms. All his success as a fixer, he claimed, he owed to his friend, Denis Delaney. What had become of the fix money? He and Delaney had split it between them...