Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Party for the Bride. The count inherited his empire from his father, a pushcart peddler who emigrated from Italy in 1881, founded a lard-rendering business and then expanded almost as fast as Sáo Paulo itself. His son has tripled the empire and is still abuilding. Though his announced net profits last year were $17.5 million, the count is notoriously coy about what he actually makes. His personal fortune tops $100 million. He is building a Roman Catholic cathedral. When his daughter Filomena (Fifi) got married a few years ago, he staged a fabulous reception, with special trains...
...finally got around to the man who added the mink coat couchant to the escutcheon of the Truman Administration. Indicted for perjury last week was owlish E. Merl Young, an old Missouri friend of Harry Truman, and a former RFC examiner who became a $60,000-a-year influence peddler in Washington. Indicted with him: Joseph Hirsch Rosenbaum, the lawyer who gave Mrs. Lauretta Young her famed $9,450 "natural royal pastel" mink, and two others accused of swinging their weight around the scandal-ridden RFC. Young and the others lied, said the jury, when they denied using their influence...
Like Charles Oliphant, General Services Administrator Jess Larson cried out in anguish when his name was mentioned in Lawyer Teitelbaum's story. Larson hurried before the King subcommittee to deny that he was part of any shakedown clique. He used his harshest words on Frank Nathan, Florida influence peddler, identified by Teitelbaum as one of the men who made the shakedown proposition for the Washington "clique...
...least $130,000 in unpaid income taxes. It looked as if this trouble would be settled without much difficulty, he testified last week, until two men named Frank Nathan and Burt K. Naster set out to help him. Nathan, of Miami Beach, is a gambler, chiseler and influence peddler; Naster, of Hollywood, Fla., is a former Chicago industrialist who once served a prison term as a tax dodger...
Clam Up. Gould also testified-and showed canceled checks to prove it-that when he refused to pay in cash, Flug and Corey told him to make out a check to one Adrian Roman. On the basis of that and other evidence, the committee suspected that Roman was a peddler for Flurey's high-priced nickel-and in many cases had actually pushed the price up some himself. There was evidence that Flurey would tell its regular customers that it had no nickel, said Gould, then sell what it had to Roman at a markup. Roman would then...