Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good Country. One secret of Mike Di Salle's success is that he is a politician, and not ashamed of it. Since his schooldays, his eye has been out for the political chance, and his vision is still 20-20. He reads all the Ohio Sunday papers and the political columnists, keeps track of men who are up & coming, and takes pains to meet new personalities and spread his own name around. He is not one to dull the 24-carat political sheen of his own background-the son of poor Italian immigrants who made something of himself...
...cotton men shouted some more. But Mike Di Salle sucked another cloud of smoke from his 8? panatela and stood his ground. "Raw cotton has been frozen at 125% of parity," he explained. "If parity is a fair price-which it is by definition-then 25% more than fair is fair enough...
When the hearing finished, however, a Mississippi cotton grower walked over to Mike Di Salle, shook his hand warmly and said: "I don't like your order, but I sure do admire your courage." Grinned Mike Di Salle: "The only thing that can happen to me is that I might have to go back to Toledo. And I like Toledo...
Pots of Pasta. Like the Jeep, Libbey-Owens-Ford glass and Toledo Scales, Mike Di Salle is a made-in-Toledo product. He was born in a tenement in Manhattan's Little Italy, but when he was three his parents, Anthony and Assunda, moved to Toledo. In those days, the Di Salle family (expanded by three more sons and three daughters after Mike) lived the skimpy life of a factory worker's family. Papa Di Salle made wine in the cellar, fixed the kids' shoes and cut their hair; mama perspired over steaming washtub-size pots...
...looking for a place to live, he called at a house with a room for rent and was greeted by the landlady's daughter. He rented the room and, 15 months later, married the daughter-Memphis-born Myrtle England. From papa Di Salle came a curt pronouncement: if Mike was old enough to get married, he was old enough to support himself...