Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mamie had gone to work for Giffels & Vallet back in mid-1928. A few weeks later she slipped away from the office for a couple of hours to appear in court on a charge of embezzlement from a former employer, was put on five years' probation. Her new bosses...
Over the years, as the trusted and all-knowing head of the bookkeeping department, Mamie Averill created a sort of personal bank balance for herself, auditors discovered, by under-recording receipts in the company ledgers. Example: in 1952, after depositing in the firm's bank account a $94,891...
Politics is a game of chance, and Lyndon Johnson, a consummate politician, knows that his chances of becoming the Democratic presidential candidate next year are all but nil. Last week, though, he was out of Texas for the first time this season on a fast, six-day political tour, looking...
Johnson's first stop was Morganfield, Ky., for a luncheon huddle with Governor Bert Combs and ex-U.S. Senator Earle Clements. A probable conversational topic: Clements' appointment as Kentucky's commissioner of highways-a strategic spot where Kingmaker Clements can control the Kentucky delegation to next...
Moving through Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Arizona, Johnson showed an uncanny understanding of his audiences. At a Drake University student Democratic club rally, he sensed the let-out partisanship of his listeners, proceeded to wow them with a wry reference to the Nixon-Rockefeller contest: "The Republicans apparently believe that...