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...Lambert gave McClellan's men a slam-bang first act that stirred immediate nationwide support for the inquiry and propelled the investigation straight to Western Conference Boss Frank Brewster, key figure in the Portland scandal. From there it was a short hop into Dave Beck's plush Seattle parlor...
...plush Panama City cocktail lounge the chitchat hushed as a scrawny 21-year-old singer stepped up, caught the beat from a guitar and chanted mournfully...
Prize Catch. In Manhattan hotels dozens of engineering firms set up plush suites and "hospitality rooms," where liquor and food were plentiful. Radio Corp. of America alone hired nine rooms at the Waldorf-Astoria, kept ten people busy interviewing some 250 engineers. Said RCA Employment Manager John R. Weld: "Convention time recruiting is our largest single effort." Motorola, which last year hired 32 engineers as a result of convention interviews, talked to 234 applicants. Bendix spent $10,000 for its convention recruitment program, which included a six-room hotel suite...
...bigots like Colonel Loughlin who are responsible for the kakistocratic rule that pervades in the South and in Russia. Whose side did the colonel fight for, and from what kind of chair-plush, leather, or reclining...
Appetite whetted, Clarence Cannon's Appropriations Committee reconvened, lectured 18 agencies on buying new cars, hiring additional employees or constructing plush buildings, then cut their requests by $500 million. Feeling the shock hardest: the Veterans Administration, which took a $206 million slash...