Word: meacham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suddenly Last Summer is further proof that Williams at his best is unsurpassed in the American theater at weaving dark spells, and unequaled at writing long, full-breathed dramatic arias-first the mother's (well done by Hortense Alden), then the girl's (done brilliantly by Anne Meacham...
...front, worked out a deal to buy six surplus tankers from a group of promoters headed by Joseph E. Casey,*onetime Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts (TIME, March 3, 1952 et seq.). As a test case the U.S. Justice Department went to court over the sale of one tanker (the Meacham), won the case, seized five ships and sold the Meacham with the proceeds held by the court...
...settlement with United Tanker. He agreed to return four remaining tankers to the company on its promise to 1) install an all-American board of directors, 2) pay its $3,250,000 mortgage on the ships, 3) let the U.S. have the $1,500,000net proceeds from the Meacham sale...
When Burger took office, a test seizure of the S.S. Meacham had already been made by the Truman Administration, and the owner's appeal was laboriously dragging its way through the courts. The former Administration felt powerless to seize any more until the test case was determined. But as soon as Burger, 45, a St. Paul lawyer and an influential Ike-before-Chicago organizer, took over, he found an ingenious way of cutting the legal red tape...
...running so many ships that, at Justice's staff luncheons, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover calls him "Admiral." Moreover, he has obtained secret, sealed indictments against several of the principals for making false statements. The owners of the ships also stand to lose vast sums if the Meacham case runs against them. Hardest hit will be Niarchos, who has had eight tankers and five Liberties seized, and his brother-in-law, Aristotle Socrates Onassis, the Greek capitalist who bought the gambling casino at Monte Carlo and operates some 80 ships around the world (TIME, Jan. 19). Onassis...