Word: fixers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis after war broke out in Europe, because Sterling had also agreed to supply I.G.'s Latin American market if I.G. itself could not deliver. In the fall of 1941 it brought down a walloping attack from Thurman Arnold. With the aid of its lawyer, ex-New Deal Fixer Tommy Corcoran, Sterling cleaned up its mess by 1) signing a consent decree; 2) agreeing to abrogate its German contracts once and for all and to compete with I.G. actively in Latin America...
...Still in the experimental stage are medicinal applications of indium and its use in a new mordant (color fixer) for the dyestuff industry...
...delegates to the Democratic National Convention (see p. 20), Another, perhaps more significant, had passed unnoticed except by the close observers: into an office in the new wing of the White House, as one of the "anonymous assistants," had moved swarthy, soft-voiced David K. Niles, political tipster and fixer extraordinary, a smooth operator who wangled $500,000 from the United Mine Workers for the 1936 Democratic war chest and who was undercover man for the New Deal janizariat in many a quiet operation during the 1940 campaign. Niles's presence close to the President has a plain meaning...
...known fact is more characteristic of Itagaki. He did not spill his bowels. Instead he returned to Tokyo and shortly attained the highest post open to him: War Minister in the cabinet of Prince Fumimaro Konoye. Men in other armies concluded that he was a mere politician, a fixer, a conniver who throve on the favor of better...
...variously a Socialist, Communist (for a few days), and numerous shades of rightist. Running this gamut he became a past master of French political intrigue, served as Foreign Minister and in other posts with several Cabinets. He also began to make big money as a corporation lawyer and super-fixer. Said he: "I don't like to work amongst files and documents. Give me the human element...