Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three times last week, Influence Peddler Henry Grunewald lowered his bursitis-racked bulk into the witness chair of the House subcommittee investigating the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Each time he dropped enough names and dollar signs to whet the investigators' appetites, then retreated into playful forgetfulness or plain refusal to answer. Items: ¶On his 1948 tax return was this item: "Presidential election bets, $20,000." Said Grunewald: "I bet on Harry Truman when everybody else dropped him." Where did he place the bet? With Miami Bookmaker Harold Salvey, a Kefauver committee witness now under indictment for income...
Elegantly outfitted and wearing a vacant smile, Influence Peddler Henry Grunewald stepped back into the spotlight on Capitol Hill last week. It had been 16 months since the mysterious Grunewald first appeared before the House subcommittee investigating the Bureau of Internal Revenue. At that time, he went clam-quiet after revealing no more than his name and age. Last week, having pleaded guilty to contempt of Congress, Grunewald was trying to talk his way into a light sentence. But he was still part clam, opening his shell only when it suited his convenience, clamming up again on questions he deemed...
...Chicago, frugal Anna Cox, 74, a street-corner peddler of notions, disclosed that her address for the past seven years has been the Chicago Transit Authority. When room rents went up, Anna Cox took to the streetcars at night. "A trolley's got a rooming house beat a mile for comfort," she said, "and it's a sight cheaper." She kept a change of clothes in a warehouse, freshened up in public toilets, lived on vegetables and fruit, always paid her full fare ($7.14 a week). "I don't sleep as well in a bed," she explained...
...attitude to sex which is not in keeping with "sound economic activity in this cold, commercial world." My only criticism of his otherwise pleasantly logical argument is that he appears to show signs of some of the narrowness which he so rightly discerns in us. Surely the dope peddler's vocation is just as commercially sound as the pimp's. The teenager has the money, the peddler can use the money; both parties are satisfied and one of them profits monetarily by the transaction. Come, come, Smith, let's have a little less intolerance, please...
...cronies and family began cashing in on that weakness. Son Khalil's law practice and business deals began showing enormous profits. So did Brother Fuad's cement plant. Brother Caesar's wife became a busy influence peddler. El Khoury's friend, Henri Pharon, a banker, boss of the taxi drivers' union and owner of a racing stable, was known as the man who could put the fix on any kind of problem...