Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tele-pad" is the name of this item which is set in a fine leather tray, hand-tooled in 25 carat gold holds. It comes in wine, red, or brown at SHREVE'S in Boston for $5.00. The attached pencil is automatic and refill pads can be obtained...
...those $100 cameras handed out to Government officials as a "goodwill" gesture by the now famed RFC client, American Lithofold Corp. The gift was arranged by James Finnegan, St. Louis former Internal Revenue collector who has been indicted for taking bribes. When Oliphant resigned, he provided another item for the list. He made public a personal financial statement listing a $1,300 loan from Henry Grunewald, a mysterious Washington private investigator. Oliphant refused to comment on the loan, but Richard C. Schwartz, Revenue Bureau lawyer, had something to say. He testified that Oliphant acted to speed up the prosecution...
...asked for details on fees paid by the ten largest firms under its jurisdiction. Last week Wiley got a partial report. It covered the biggest alien company held by the Government, the Nazi-controlled General Aniline and Film Corp., and its sales-distribution organization, General Dyestuff Corp. Interesting item: Louis Johnson (Harry Truman's campaign fund raiser in 1948, Defense Secretary in 1949-50) and his law firm have collected $589,985 in fees and salaries from the two firms...
...save time while Item 3 (supervision of the armistice) was being thrashed out, the U.N. wanted another subcommittee appointed to work simultaneously on Item 4, which concerns exchange of prisoners. The Reds said only that they were taking it under advisement. By week's end, U.N. briefing officers were telling correspondents that the Reds were using the prisoner question as "blackmail" and as a "human club" held over the U.N.'s head...
GEBELEIN, master silversmith at 79 Chestnut Street in Boston, has been associated with original, fine, silverwork ever since Beacon Hill has been associated with Boston. The show room and shop are in the same building, and offer such items as this candle snuffer, the handle a replica of Paul Revere's sword and the top, a model of his hat. This item goes for $10.00, and is but one of the many objects in modern and antique silverware offered at Gebelein...