Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Adams had in fact done his friend any good in any of his Government troubles. Be that as it may, Goldfine understood how the Adams friendship let him wheel and deal. "He told me," testified Goldfine's latter-day enemy John Fox, publisher of the Boston Post, in court in April, "that as long as he had Sherman Adams in his pocket he could do it." An old hand at politics, Adams knew Washington well, and he would have been an unknowing man indeed not to realize that interest on the part of the "Assistant President" could carry...
...supported my friends as I could within my means." A sample of how hard he would work for "one of my very dear friends" came in the Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign of 1952. when Democratic Incumbent Paul A. Dever ("May God rest his soul") was being attacked by the Boston Post. Goldfine's simple effort: he extended a $400,000 line of credit to the paper's owner, capricious Boy Wonder John Fox, on condition that the Post make a last-minute switch to support Dever. (It did, but Dever lost anyway.) "I regarded it as a favor...
...years, not five, he proclaimed, adding that he might oppose other features of the House bill too. Rumbled the New York Times: "The so-called minority leader and spokesman for the Republican Party in the Senate is once again demonstrating how ridiculous it is that he holds that august post in the party's hierarchy...
...weekends Sylvia and her husband shuttle up to an exurbanite home complete with swimming pool in upper Westchester County: "I don't put on a girdle until Monday." But every Monday Sylvia returns to an apartment on lower Fifth Avenue and to her office at the Post, where-puffing Philip Morris cigarettes and rattling off her sentences at a deadline-racing clip-she delights in making as many dollars and as much sense as she can out of the clutter of financial facts...
...hilarious as Sullivan is lugubrious, and as sparkling as Ed is post-effervescent, Canadian Comics Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster are everything that "The Great Stone Face" is not. Well aware of their talents, Impresario Sullivan has signed them up for at least 20 intermittent appearances over the next year...