Word: seligman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...during the course of questioning butchers that Investigator Kaplan's agents uncovered the extortion ring. Butcher Manny Seligman, for one, explained how it worked. He had been summonsed for short weighing by an inspector from the Bureau of Weights and Measures, and he turned up as ordered at bureau headquarters. There, suave, mouse-browed Director Frederick J. Loughran and Inspector Bert Smith told him about a "new system." Seligman was simply to pay Loughran "a couple of thousand dollars" to kill the summons. When he protested, an inspector told him: "If you don't pay up, you will...
...compromise, Seligman promised to pay a $60 monthly bribe, was assured that he would no longer be bothered with summonses; if by chance he was ticketed by another inspector who was not in on the take, Seligman was told that Loughran would overlook it. In this way, according to testimony, Loughran and some of his crooked aides, helped by President Emanuel Lapidus of the 600-member Salesmen and Poultry Workers Union, swung butchers into line, wrapped up what Investigator Kaplan rates as "millions of dollars" over a period of at least 18 months. The butchers in the "club," some...
...women wait anxiously on the decrees of such men as Antoine, aging (seventyish), wavy-haired dean of U.S. hair stylists, who has turned more heads than a nation of Casanovas. From his headquarters in Paris, Antoine lays down the law for the 48 Antoine salons that are part of Seligman & Latz, the nation's largest beauty chain (292 salons). He is responsible for the page boy, the pompadour, the Italian cut, the tousle and the bubble bob, has just decreed for fall a "tousled-up Madame Reácamier" style (forehead fringe, slightly curled bouffant sides, and a high...
Died. Margaret Seligman Lewisohn, 59, educational leader; in an automobile crash (half an hour after Adlai Stevenson, whom she had given a lift, had left the car); near Shenandoah, N.Y. A trustee of Vassar and one of the founders of Bennington College, wealthy Margaret Lewisohn, was chairman of the board of trustees of the Public Education Association...
...Seligman also pointed out that these were merely his own views, but that "all liberal groups would agree" with at least the first part of the statement. He added that "nothing in Korea is inconsistent with Russia's previous methods...