Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the day Artie Samish made his first million, at 32, commissions and contingent fees have steadily swelled his personal affluence. But a major setback came in 1951 when the Kefauver committee called nationwide attention to his activities. Last month a federal court convicted Samish of income-tax evasion. The charge: failing to pay $71,878 in taxes on a $120,000 commission from the Biow Co., a New York advertising agency. The money, payment for Samish's services in landing the Schenley Distillers' account, was remitted in checks drawn to ex-prize fighters, bookies, friends and relatives...
...heard of John Steinbeck," for instance); on the fifth day, when he pleasantly told me that he meant to "take a book home and read it some night because he hadn't read a book in five years," I fired him . . . The whole incident was only a temporary setback, however, because he is still in the school system and has recently been appointed to a $9,000-a-year post. There are no rewards in the U.S. save for mediocrity, and it must be of an inferior grade. FRANCIS LYNCH Los Angeles
...final vote, with ten abstentions and only the Russian block in opposition, is considered an important cold-war victory for Henry 'Cabot Lodge Jr., chief United States delegate, who made the charges late in October, and a crucial progaganda setback for Androl Y. Vishinsky, Russian deputy foreign minister, who denounced them as "sladerous, libelous and provocative...
Former city manager John B. Atkinson sees "defeat of PR as a great setback to council-manager form of government in Cambridge." He does not think that PR will be defeated, however...
...familiar cave girl of the cartoons-dragged toward a cave by a club-lugging male-is usually smiling, as if well pleased with her prospects. This cheerful view of history got a setback last week from evidence unearthed in Germany...