Word: illgotten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sales Executives Club in Manhattan, Philip Cortney, president of Coty, Inc., took a roundhouse swing at his archrival, Revlon (sponsors of The $64,000 Question, co-sponsors of The $64,000 Challenge). Businessmen who profited from rigged shows, said Cortney, should be called to account by congressional committees. Their "illgotten gains" should be donated to charity as "conscience money." Businessmen, Cortney concluded, ought to keep their hands off entertainment...
...tung's Chinese Communist hunting ground, businessmen are known as "tigers." They are fair game at all seasons for bloodthirsty bureaucrats, who have orders to fill the party's war chest from the "illgotten wealth" of the rich. Last week the Red People's government announced the "successful conclusion" of the biggest tiger hunt since the Soviet Union exterminated the kulaks...