Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depletion allowance which permits them to pocket 27½% of their gross income (up to 50% of their net) before paying a cent of taxes. Such old-time Texas millionaires as Jesse Jones, who owns dozens of Houston's choicest buildings, and Publisher Amon Carter, whose Fort Worth Star-Telegram is Texas' biggest paper (circ. 241,582), were able to amass their first riches in other fields. So was Dallas' Leo Corrigan, who has pyramided his real-estate holdings to an estimated $500 million (latest project: a $5,000,000 resort hotel in Nassau). But by & large...
...K.K.K. The new Athenians, especially Murchison and Richardson, differ from their brother millionaires in that they do not dabble noisily in politics, propaganda, or welfare institutions. While they stick to business, they have their little luxuries but shun ostentation. Bachelor Richardson lives in the Fort Worth Club, has one of the finest U.S. collections of frontier paintings by Russell and Remington. Murchison shuttles between New York, Washington and a collection of city and country homes in a private DC-3, the Flying Ginny (named for his pretty second wife, Virginia, who accompanies him on many of his trips...
Jenkins: I'll ask you whether or not in those telephone conversations there were discussions not only with reference to Schine but with reference to the McCarthy investigating committee's work at Fort Monmouth. Were those two subjects discussed in the same conversations...
...able to do. He had arrived in Washington with astonishingly little knowledge of the issues, procedures and pitfalls. One example of his lack of background : he did not realize that there was serious dispute about the merit of whether Joe McCarthy's headline-grabbing hearings at Fort Monmouth had been harmful. At first, Jenkins' questioning was based on the assumption that McCarthy's Fort Monmouth foray was a great service to the U.S., but he soon dropped that line in favor of an impartially open mind on the point...
Mass Reaction. In Fort William...