Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Success Story. In Miami, the Herald ran a classified ad: "Gold mine, get rich quick and retire early, 100% profit, very lucrative business. Reason for selling: business bankrupt...
...devoted Eisenhower team player, Gates publicly blew his stack against Ike's Defense Department reorganization plan ("The Secretary of Defense has all the authority he needs"), cannonaded against interservice bickerings ("The Secretary of Defense continues to struggle handicapped by traditionally divided service opinions"). Anxious to return to his gold-plated Drexel investment job, Gates early this year resigned his $22,000 secretaryship, effective June 1. But Ike persuaded him to stay in Washington as Deputy Secretary. Said Gates: "It plays hob with my personal plans, but I guess it is my duty...
Reel Three: Coleman's political opponents were already making hay out of his FBI call, and the Wilkins statement was material for their hayrakes. "Wilkins gave Coleman a nice bouquet of roses wrapped in gold foil," cried State Democratic Chairman Bidwell Adam, charging that Coleman wanted "to sew up the 25,000 Negro votes." Barred by law from another term, Coleman is backing Lieutenant Governor Carroll Gartin. But in the aftermath of the Parker case, amid strong rumors that the FBI would have the killers this week, Coleman's support of Gartin was less than an asset. Said...
From British-governed Basutoland and Bechuanaland, both moving gradually toward independence, come thousands of workers each year, heading for South Africa's gold mines and carrying, along with their cardboard suitcases, dangerous new ideas about African rights. To the approving cries of "Hoor! Hoor!" (Hear! Hear!), Verwoerd warned that something must be done, and that multiracial political development was no answer...
Bubble Trouble. Whom does Schindler suspect? He named no names, but he fingered the man who ordered the killing as "the real power in the Bahamas." What was the motive? Said Schindler: Sir Harry, who dug his fortune out of an eastern Ontario gold mine, was about to prick the then-swelling Bahamas bubble (TIME, April 20) by liquidating his real-estate holdings and moving to South America...