Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born Franklin Floete, 66, promptly let it be known that GSA is in for some changes. He snorted with disgust upon entering his dark, cavernous office, modeled after the hall of an English manor house, where Albert B. Fall once sat as Harding's Interior Secretary and where Harold Ickes ruled before working himself a new building. "You don't call this an office," snapped Floete. "I'm going down the hall a few doors, where there is a human-sized office...
...indictment resulted from Singer's appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, under Representative Harold Velde...
...perhaps the major charm of the show comes from minor characters involved in incidental routines. Particularly good is Henry Holmes, as Harold Steadfast, the indefatiguable buddy of Truman Pendennis. Preston Brown's spoof of New England economy and conservatism is touching with his flawless Marlborough Street accent. Timothy Gates, as the angel child's aged mother, has little opportunity to extemporize, though his exit song is delightfully dead-pan and relaxed...
...crush, all the wire services stationed extra men near the door; Smith tipped his own man with a wink and a nod as he rose to end the conference. Newsmen lucky enough to have staked out corridor phone booths leaped to call their offices. But some, like Harold Greer of the Toronto Star, ran four long blocks to the National Press Building to file their stories...
What gave Ratliff and his friends their bargaining power was the quiet support of marble-faced old (74) Harold L. (Harry) Stuart, head of Chicago's Halsey, Stuart & Co. and one of the country's top financiers. It was Stuart who floated $6,000,000 in loans to swing the Enquirer deal and who still holds $1,500,000 in debentures, which are convertible into stock. The stock would give its holders working control of the paper...