Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slanderous Implications." Next came evidence indicating how Bolich expressed his gratitude to some of his generous friends. He had a hand in dropping or easing numerous apparently legitimate tax claims, ranging from $50,000 to several million. When an Internal Revenue auditor began an investigation of the tax affairs of Bolich's friend Grunewald, for example, Bolich switched the case to another auditor and it was soon dropped. In 1949, at the request of Grunewald and another old friend, Bolich intervened in a $250,000 claim against Pattullo Modes, Inc., a Manhattan dress firm. Criminal proceedings against its owners...
...would be used for a program of aid to education through grants to all the states--much as the sale of public land was originally used to support colleges. Since the states had never held title to this coastal land anyway, the O'Mahoney-Hill plan was a generous settlement; the Senate rejected it 47-36 and gave ownership away to the states...
...Generous Americans. So far the American invasion numbers 4,000 construction workers and 3,000 blue-uniformed airmen. Thirty-ton earth loaders, compactors and asphalt layers are changing the landscape, within sight of Arab and Berber shepherds who tend their flocks and think their own thoughts. The French administration welcomes the advent of U.S. capital and enterprise, but insists on keeping local wages down to check inflation. Many French bureaucrats, businessmen, speculators and colons (plantation owners) grumble that the generous, kindly Americans will spoil the inhabitants...
More, than half a million Americans during the past year have been bewitched by the Devil. This particular Devil is a jovial old party who wears a rumpled dinner jacket over his generous paunch, and sports no horns or tail. His glance, though sometimes leering, is never demoniac, and he talks about Heaven and Hell with a twinkle, like a fat, fond uncle...
...added, "and it is essential that we increase our scholarship funds by at least as much if Harvard is to remain a democratic national educational institution open to talent wherever found. I hope that awareness of this need shown so forcefully by Mr. and Mrs. Loeb will stimulate similar generous gifts from other benefactors...