Word: schemer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against a Texas statewide average of 48.6%; later on, Estes' figure rose to 58.3%, but the state average also went up, to 62.9%. Said a White House staffer: "If Estes was spending a lot of money at Agriculture, he sure wasn't getting much for it." The Schemer. All the while that Estes' assets were growing, his liabilities were mounting even faster. In 1960 he ventured on another desperate scheme for making big money. Estes had found cotton-farming profitable. The only obstacle to growing more cotton and making more profits was that the U.S. Government...
...moment. Alexander Troyanovsky, the first (1934-39), was squat and jolly, symbolizing an era when the two nations resumed relations after a 16-year lapse.* But as suspicions and ill-feeling grew between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. and Communist intriguing spread throughout the hemisphere, Constantine Oumansky, a schemer and conniver, took over. Then, in the critical years of World War II, when Russia desperately needed U.S. help, grandfatherly Maxim Litvinov became ambassador. He was pro-Western, cooperative and eager to please-as befitted the envoy of an embattled ally. But as the tide of victory turned, Litvinov was supplanted...
First Finch. The prosecution's Finch, as depicted in the case built by Deputy District Attorney Fred Whichello, was an immoral, sinister schemer. Though the doctor was enormously successful (part ownership of a thriving clinic, income of about $200,000 a year, a $50,000 home in the fancy Los Angeles suburb of West Covina, a 22-ft. speedboat, three cars), his marriage to Barbara was a dismal failure. It was a second marriage for both; they had met when she was his secretary and then had swapped spouses (he had three children by his first wife). The marriage...