Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another lame duck from the old 81st Congress combed the birdshot from his feathers last week and limped back into action. South Dakota's Republican Chan Gurney, who lost his Senate seat to Isolationist Francis Case in a primary election last spring, won his reward for loyal support of Administration defense programs on the Armed Services Committee. The reward: a presidential appointment to fill out the remaining 22 months of a vacant seat on the Civil Aeronautics Board. Salary: $15,000 a year...
...explain why, after Siegel's untimely death, a Houston man had asked him to come down to Texas, and why Smiley had shuttled back & forth between Houston and the Beverly Club, the gambling casino near New Orleans controlled by New York's Frank Costello. Smiley's reward for these questionable services was "a small piece of property." What kind of property? "Well, it may have had a few oil wells on it/' said Al, and departed with curled...
...almost three years the Atomic Energy Commission has made a standing offer of $10,000 to anyone who discovers a deposit of high-grade uranium ore. No one has claimed the reward. Last week AEC, which buys most of its ore from Canada and the Belgian Congo, raised the offer to a top of $35,000, agreed to pay for the discovery of low-grade deposits...
...with life." é"Art isn't the only thing in the world -the cemeteries are full of great people who never made a name. And what has success got to do with art anyway? Everybody can't be top man. If you love painting, the only reward you need is to paint." é"Of course every artist has to borrow from others. Picasso is the greatest thief of them all, but still, when he walks down a street he keeps his eyes open." é"The reason I like painting from nature is that you can't beat...
...enforcing the nation's price controls. He asked New York City's Police Commissioner Tom Murphy to take it on-if not permanently, at least long enough to get the ball rolling. But Commissioner Murphy, who had never gotten the federal judgeship he expected as a reward for his successful prosecution of the Hiss case,* was in no mood to rush to the Administration's rescue this time. Said Murphy, after declining: "I was flattered ... but I have a job to do as Police Commissioner in New York City...