Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Right after that, Oliphant began receiving a parade of visitors with uncommon sympathy for Klein's predicament. One of the first was Henry ("The Dutchman") Grunewald, the ubiquitous influence peddler who has popped up in half a dozen tax probes. The black-marketeering and tax fraud charges were dropped a few months after Grunewald intervened. By now, Senator Bridges was also in the act. Soon afterward, the lien on Klein's assets was eased to allow him to resume doing business...
Convicted last week for misconduct as a U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue: James P. Finnegan, 51, once a Fair Deal influence peddler and trusted crony of Harry Truman. After a nine-day trial in St. Louis' federal court, a jury found Finnegan guilty of illegally accepting some $8,000 in fees from two private companies for helping them collect a claim and a loan from the U.S. Government...
...hook a blase Broadway agent (Larry Parks). In the course of her campaign, she 1) annoys him by publicly announcing their nonexistent engagement, 2) gets him tangled up in a troupe of twirling moppets at a dance recital, 3) taunts him with being a "flesh peddler." Elizabeth Taylor, ineptly striving for comic form, reveals a photogenic figure, but Parks falls flat on his farce. Completed early in 1951, Love Is Better Than Ever was temporarily shelved for political reasons, after Parks appeared last March before the Un-American Activities Committee and admitted that he was once a Communist Party member...
...book, in a chapter entitled "Boston Baked Beans and B-Girls," also discusses Jerome L. Rappaport '45 and the New Boston Committee. It states that the N.B.C. is "loaded with pinks, lefties, union overlords, and those who serve the underword, including a prominent dope peddler," and calls Rappaport a "carpet-bagger from New York," who, while at Harvard, founded the Harvard Law School Forum, "a nauseous and noisy organization of professional do-gooders...
...Germans ousted, the French insisted on getting into the act; then the Americans set up a clamor. Turkish Petroleum was renamed Iraq Petroleum and was divided between Britain, France, the U.S. and The Netherlands, with each holding 23.75%. The remaining 5% went appropriately to the wily old Armenian influence-peddler who got them together: Calouste S. Gulbenkian, another candidate for richest man in the world...