Word: galician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grossinger's never changed its identity. Back in 1914 the Galician emigres Selig and Malke Grossinger bought a farm with a down payment of $450. After they became innkeepers they turned a first-year gross of $81. But things picked up between the wars. Their blond, gregarious daughter Jennie had acquired some nearby property, and with an amalgam of public relations, real estate smarts and philanthropy, she became the lodestar of the Catskills. Politicians came to the place they called the "G" to court the Jewish vote, athletes to use the growing facilities, entertainers to try out new routines...