Word: shakedowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fill a current vacancy on the United States Naval Academy's Board of Visitors, the President last week appointed an old hand at curricular problems: brother Milton Eisenhower, president of Johns Hopkins University. The job: to give Annapolis a three-day shakedown inspection once a year. The pay: $5 a day while...
...riot." Most of the papers, it turned out, were at least as factual as Boroff, who insisted to the press that what McDougle had objected to was merely a voluntary unloading of hot cargo, later was overheard to admit that his bad boys were subjected to a thorough shakedown each morning...
Pinch & Punch. What did the signs add up to? Answers ranged from a breather (Dwight Eisenhower) to a serious recession (Texas' easy-money Democratic Congressman Wright Patman). Various economists and businessmen called it recession, rolling readjustment, healthy adjustment, mild cyclical adjustment, slowdown, shakedown downturn, downtrend, sidewise movement, plateau, leveling off, period of hesitation, soft period, temporary cyclical swing in long-term growth, polka-dot prosperity with the spots getting bigger...
...show lacked the hippodrome theatrics of other-day TV hearings, it was a smoothly professional job, with Labor Reporter Clark Mollenhoff (Des Moines Register) and Du Mont's Matt Warren providing knowledgeable commentary. The show was marred only once: as Senator Kennedy illustrated shakedown techniques by playing tapped phone conversations involving extortion, Mollenhoff intruded with extraneous commentary...
When he was working for them, the French dignified Le Van Vien's private army of 8,000 bloodthirsty gangsters as a "politico-religious organization," but Le Van Vien himself put it to more practical uses, including piracy, highway robbery, kidnaping, smuggling, pandering and an elaborate system of shakedown rackets. By the early 1950s, however, his chest adorned with France's own Legion of Honor for other services rendered, General Le Van Vien was a respectable servant of empire with a household of wives and concubines and a zoo full of wild beasts on a spacious estate overlooking...