Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surpluses, but that these surpluses "are available through most unusual sources." A most unusual source, he said, was Manhattan's Worldwide Mercantile Corp., which conveniently shared its office with Consolidated Industries. A contact man for Consolidated Industries, said he, was none other than Irving Wexler, 58, alias Waxey Gordon, the beefy, slit-eyed top dog of New York City's beer runners in the lush days of Prohibition...
With relish Mayor LaGuardia recited Waxey Gordon's police record-14 arrests under seven aliases, and six jail terms. In 1933, when it was fashionable to convict racketeers for income-tax evasion, Waxey was given ten years. By 1942 Waxey was back, and in tune with the times; he was jailed for a year for running a black market in sugar. When Manhattan's police tapped Worldwide's phones, they were not surprised to hear the enterprising Waxey telling a friend: "I'm now in a swell thing . . . buying Government surplus business...
...demonstration took place in the town of Roetgen (pop. 2,300), near Aachen. Many of the townspeople had fled. Some were hiding in terror. Civil Affairs Officer Captain Gordon F. Thomas, of Brockton, Mass., drove in with five men, parked his jeep in front of the post office, established himself as judge, mayor and military boss...
...Totem Pole, Julian Gordon and Herb Gold went canoeing Indian style. They were slightly disappointed by the soft drink fare which must be ordered by couples by the way. T.B. and T.E. started out from the Hotel Commander with their visiting fiancees and went out to take in the Shop Fields' band. For the benefit of first company men, these lads are the Tom Robinsons known apart only by their company numbers and middle names...
...Chairman Gordon also tossed out a challenge to private enterprise: "The Board must assume that expansion of civilian "output will take place within the framework of a system which relies mainly upon private enterprise. . . . Industry must now proceed vigorously to develop [its own] plans . . . for providing jobs for the hundreds of thousands of people who will one day cease to produce supplies and munitions...