Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manager when the President was elected to the Senate in 1934. Dillon once received a $10,000 fee for getting a Capone henchman paroled. Mississippi Congressman John B. Williams, on the floor of the House, angrily referred to Dillon as "a rascal, an underworld character, a fixer, an influence peddler." Another of Hood's Washington "contact men" is Acey Carraway, former financial director of the Democratic National Committee, to whom Hood says he still pays $500 a month for "anything he can do" to help Hood's lumber business...
...Wolf. Oldtimers at San Quentin still remember the surgery The Croaker did on "Wolf" Blaisdell, a snarling, point-eared dope peddler whose viciously lupine features were matched only by his surly character. One day, shortly before his release, the Wolf came to Dr. Stanley and with unwonted meekness begged that something be done about his face. He was tired, said the Wolf, of having people slink away whenever they saw him. Dr. Stanley smoothed out his gash-like wrinkles, trimmed down his ears, sent the rejuvenated Wolf back into the world personable enough to date Red Riding Hood. Since then...
Weeping, the boy confessed that he had used drugs for a year-first marijuana on a dare from a schoolmate, then the virulent morphine derivative, heroin. The drug made him feel "high and light," and after he met a peddler named "Greasy George," he started using it regularly. To get a "fix" of heroin he had only to ask George: "Do you need a boy?" or "Have you got a thing?" For a dollar, the peddler would produce one of the capsules of white powder he kept hidden just inside the zipper of his pants. Once supplied...
...also kept the paper in plenty of hot water. When Parliament launched an investigation in 1947 into charges by M.P. Garry Allighan that certain M.P.s were selling parliamentary secrets to the press (TIME, Aug.11, Nov. 10, 1947), it turned out in the end that Allighan was the secret-peddler-and that Gunn's paper was paying him for the news beats. Allighan was ousted from Parliament while the British press frowned on Gunn. The next year, the Standard broke the release date on a poll of British doctors on the nationalization of British medicine, and brought down the wrath...
...painter, De Chirico long ago lost his punch; as a peddler, he still has plenty of push. In June, the superannuated master proved it with an eye-catching ad for Fiat automobiles (TIME, July 3). Last week he was again honking his own horn at a conservative sideshow to Venice's vast international roundup of modern art, the "Biennale" (TIME, June...