Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shown little interest in the business. As they needed cash to continue living in their high & handsome manner, they preferred to liquidate the empire. Ambitious Charlie de Bretteville, a distant Spreckels kin and longtime employee of the company, was glad to help in the liquidation. He formed a new outfit called the Spreckels Companies, with the aid of Virgil Dardi, the shrewd boss of Blair Holdings Corp., a California investment firm, and Claus's grandchildren, sisters Alma Spreckels Rosekrans and Dorothy C. Spreckels. The sisters are the only members of the Spreckels clan still interested in the family business...
...drawing of one of his scantily clad lovelies for a good luck token. He informed Morgan that this year's drawing was in the works. But it hasn't arrived at Red Top yet and Morgan is looking for it in each mail. Superstitution or not, this Harvard outfit isn't overlooking a bet for Friday. After all, this one is against Yale...
...Condon hit the ceiling; Mrs. Condon had given Kent a Bulgarian's address, but there was no showing that the Bulgarian was a Soviet agent. The FBI, he cried, was a "stupid" outfit whose report had been based on "false and malicious" information. "Who attacks my wife," he announced, "must take me on. Mr. J. Edgar Hoover owes her a personal apology. I hope he is man enough to deliver...
...Deerfield, Wis., within a week after his marriage, Editor Harland Everson's Independent ran an ad over his name: "For Sale ... 42 corncob pipes, 1 Home Brew outfit complete . . . 1 address book...
Utah Beach on Dday, and it had hard fighting all the way to Cherbourg. Van Fleet was wounded, left the hospital to get back to his outfit while Bradley was on the way there to give him a medal. Bradley caught up with him, gave him the medal, and some advice: handle the next fight from a command post and stop working up forward on the firing line...