Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nathan Lichtblau, 45, Manhattan plastics manufacturer who also owns interests in Palm Beach real estate. A perennial assistant to Democratic treasurers since 1936, Lichtblau served as Johnson's deputy, wheedled many a sweat-stained dollar from New York's minority groups when the going was tough. The money he raised paid for the newspaper advertising campaign launched in the campaign's closing days. Says Lichtblau: "I don't want a job or anything. I work purely as an amateur...
David Dubinsky, president of Manhattan's powerful, well-run International Ladies Garment Workers. Dubinsky raised a lot of money, paid for several Truman broadcasts...
...conditions under which Amerika is produced would daunt many another editor. Articles and captions for each Russian issue are written in English in Amerika's twelfth-floor Manhattan offices, then flown to Moscow for translation and censorship. There unpredictable Soviet bureaucrats sometimes take ten days, sometimes ten weeks, to approve an issue before returning it to the U.S. to be printed and shipped back to Moscow. This long, fluctuating deadline means that most stories and pictures must be "timeless Americana." But out of 3,000,000 words, Moscow has deleted only about...
...resumed her maiden name recently (with the prefix Mrs.) "to avoid confusion" with Wa-laceite. Ted, now editor of the new Manhattan tabloid, Daily Compass...
...Bank for Reconstruction and Development quit his job last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the bank, as all good businesses should, had someone to step into his shoes. Into the $30,000-a-year (tax free*) presidency went the U.S. Executive Director Eugene Robert Black, 51, senior vice president of Manhattan's Chase National Bank...