Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South: At 3 a.m. on July 22, Geneva's decision reached into Saigon's palm-shaded Palais Gialong, 400 miles south of the 17th parallel. A light burned in a first-floor office. Disillusioned and sleepless, Viet Nam's Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem opened the cablegram from Geneva and read...
...Exchange on complaints from stockholders that they should have been notified individually of Burlington's plans. But chances are good that nothing will come of the probe, since both stocks are higher now than they were when the offers were made. Burlington will sell Goodall-Sanford's Palm Beach suit subsidiary, will probably eventually shift the work in Goodall's biggest mill, at Sanford, Me., to the South...
...must be affronted with these things in the public prints. Thank goodness the citizens of Salem, Ore. had the spunk to eject that monstrosity of a statue from their courthouse lawn. What if we had to see things like that everywhere ? Please don't palm them...
...Cheltenham Festival. It is the most important music festival in the country . . . Why, do you know what they asked me to play at Edinburgh this year? Scheherazade. Scheherazade! Imagine! I refused. I said to them, 'I'm not coming to Edinburgh to play that kind of palm-court stuff.' But that's what Edinburgh is like now. Cheltenham is different...
...next day, Burlington produced an even bigger surprise; it announced that it wanted to buy control of Goodall-Sanford, Inc. (Palm Beach suits, plastic-coated fabrics, etc.) in the open market. This came as a shock to J. P. Stevens & Co. (the family firm of Army Secretary Robert Stevens), which was also planning to buy Goodall-Sanford, even had its men taking inventory in the plants. But it was even more of a shock to Goodall-Sanford executives, who apparently had not been informed by Burlington of its plans...