Word: meadmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meadmen who offered him the convention chairmanship for his support, Jim Farley gave a curt no. New York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer said yes. So did Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt to an invitation to be the convention keynoter. If the LaGuardia boom held up, the convention at Albany on Sept. 3 would probably touch off some fancy fireworks...
...longer startling news that 56-year-old Murray Garsson and 71-year-old Andy May had been up to their eyeballs together in a sour business deal. The Meadmen had already developed plenty of evidence that Andy May was the busy mentor of the Garsson brothers' nexus of paper-built munitions companies, that it was fairly common talk around the Gars-sons' Washington office that packets of $1,000 and $3,000 were sent up The Hill to handy Andy (TIME, July...
From there on the trail followed by the Meadmen was a maze of 16 interlocked companies whose assets were kited back and forth with the stroke of a pen. Up went the combine's contracts-at war's end they had got $78,000,000 worth of business out of the Government...
...Then the Meadmen issued a final challenge: a subpoena which May could only ignore at the risk of blacking out his already dark-brown reputation...
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