Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mentioned that Juno was in the basement of a Bonn museum in 1934 when Hitler decided that all paintings that weren't Rhenish should be sold. An astute collector snatched up the painting for 900 Marks, or $214. "We got even with Hitler," Hammer said of the deal. "That...
...during his hour-long tour Hammer remained the consummate businessman--even taking phone calls, one of them from Columbia's Soviet scholar and Carter adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to arrange a meeting later that afternoon, presumably to discuss Soviet-American relations...
...subject of those relations, Hammer recalled an encounter he once had with Trotsky, a man he used to debate about the Communist and capitalist systems...
Trotsky, he said, told him, "You know we want you to take a concession in Russia." At the time Hammer says he was a little nonplussed, unsure about what Trotsky had in mind. Until, he says, Trotsky added, "But when the revolution comes in America, we will take it all back...
...Although Hammer is far past traditional retirement age, William McSweeny, president of Occidental International, who accompanied the Hammers on their trip said, when asked whether Hammer still runs the show at Occidental, "You bet your life, he does...