Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suffer under a hostile governor who could withhold state patronage? They reached an important decision. As one of the leaders put it: "This state patronage is way overrated. I have more jobs in my own county than the governor can give me. State patronage is the meringue on the pie. But we have the pie itself...
...guess about how I vote," says Conant, who was at one time listed in "Who's Who" as a Republican, but who campaigned for Al Smith in 1928. His policy toward the New Deal invoked, angry grumblings from alumni which culminated when an old grad supposedly tossed a pie at him during a reunion of his undergraduate social club in the late 30's. Conant does not remember the incident, but it is a rapidly-growing legend in the club itself...
...controlled by Reynolds, which long made Eskimo Pie foil-wrappers...
What would McGranery do about corruption in Government? "Clean it out and get rid of it . . . Weed out and fire any incompetent, disloyal or dishonest employee . . . Easy as pie." With McCarran's help, he brushed off, as mere feuding, some caustic testimony leveled at him by his Philadelphia enemy and fellow Democrat District Attorney Richardson Dilworth. (Said Dilworth of McGranery: "He would be most political . . . Anything would go for his political friends, anything to garrote his political enemies...
...such smart merchandising, Keating has built up a line of 2,000 products ranging from a 5? pie pan to a $39 set of stainless steel "Diamondware" table service. Last year his Ekco Products Co. sold 375,000 egg beaters, 10½ million kitchen knives, 2,500,000 rubber-ended bottle stoppers, 1.5 million pots & pans and 12 million can openers. Disguised under such brand names as A. & J., Flint and Ovenex, Ekco Products brought in a 1951 gross of $35 million...