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Einstein? The questionnaire and scoreboard, says Grosse Pointe Realtor Paul Maxon, "have been very successful, have kept property values up, and are approved by at least 95% of the people out here." The whole idea of the system is to keep out people who tend toward "cliqueishness," "Old World customs," and "clannishness," e.g., "an Italian fruit vendor." Furthermore, real estate men point out that Grosse Pointe has a number of Polish, Greek and Southern European people scattered throughout the suburbs. Says Realtor Maxon: "I am sure Albert Einstein would have been accepted here...
...made to Jimmy Hoffa, but found remarkably little evidence of repayments. Several recipients of Teamster loans showed their gratitude by lending Hoffa money or showing excessive kindness to his buddies. Teamster Lawyer George Fitzgerald got the Michigan Conference of Teamsters Welfare Fund to loan $1,000,000 to a realtor who paid Fitzgerald a $15,750 "finder...
Councillors Alfred E. Vellucci and Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 both said they had received long-distance calls from Rodney W. Long '22 shortly before the council meeting, and said that the local realtor expected that he would be back in time for the May 25 meeting. Vellucci said two weeks ago that Long had enlisted his aid in promoting the project...
Vellucci told the City Council that he had recently been approached by Rodney W. Long '22, a local realtor, who asked his help in getting co-operation from various city organizations. Long represented a group interested in putting five 20-story apartment houses on the site, according to Vellucci...
...land boom was the old backslapping hard sell. He fixed his selling price at $2 to $5 an acre. What if the land is remote (and no more fertile than tracts being peddled by Mato Grosso State for 35? an acre)? One day the wilderness would bloom. Said Realtor Cage, nobly: "I'm going to work hard and pay back everybody that lost anything in Texas. You betcha, and the first people I'm going to pay back are those little old widows-yessiree, I'm going to call them right up to the head...