Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks Sidney James's Pacific Coast staff had been bombarding us with copy on the coast's present situation. Still needed was an examination of the part that Giannini and his sprawling banking system had played and would play in it. Giannini was sunning himself at Palm Beach. Our nearest staff correspondent (Atlanta) was sick; so we sent Ed Lockett, one of our Washington bureau's most experienced reporters, to get Giannini's side of the story. Unable to find a plane seat on such short notice, Lockett took the night train...
...year-old son Albert, from starving, the Government obligingly plans to remove the family entail from Trafalgar House. When and if it is sold, future heirs will retain only an empty earldom, a coat of arms, and the bitter comfort of the Nelson family motto: "Let him wear the palm who has deserved...
...Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini feels an urge for solitude, flaps eastward to survey his Pacific Coast empire from a distance. In the past these vigils were often disturbed by the sight of an enemy and Giannini's instinct for plummeting into violent battle. But last week in Palm Beach the 75-year-old Giannini sunned his scars in peace, lazily observed the movements of lesser birds, and gazed west with a benevolent softening of his hooded eyes...
...white-haired, white-mustached founder of the world's richest branch banking system was spending the winter as befitted his station-amid the surf-edged, palm-shaded luxury of the Breakers Hotel. Certain necessary trappings of state were in evidence-telegrams were delivered, long distance calls put through, and a fitting number of moist, pink vice presidents arrived to intone, "Yes, A.P.," at proper intervals...
Divorced. Jacob L. ("Jakie") Webb, 27, errant great-great-grandson of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; by Lenore Lemmon, 22, Manhattan cafe character; after ten days of marriage, 4½ years of separation, no children; in West Palm Beach...