Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock, De Sapio had begun the workday that would last for 18 hours (seven days a week). His wavy black hair, streaked at the temples with silver, was meticulously combed. The talcum was in place. He wore the tinted glasses that are his trademark. He sat at a grey, formica-topped kitchen table and, in the manner of a man aware of his clothes, hiked up his big shoulders, thereby pulling up his coat-sleeves to reveal his gleaming cufflinks. Passing through the kitchen was De Sapio's 17-year-old daughter Geraldine (whose fierce pride in her father...
With a vast diamond glittering from his shirt front, Boss Tweed lived in the grand manner. The value of gifts, e.g., 40 sets of sterling silver, at his daughter's wedding was estimated at $700,000. Tweed gave lavishly to charity: once, when approached by a ward leader for a donation to the poor, Tweed wrote a check for $5,000. "Oh Boss," said the ward heeler, half jokingly, "put another naught to it." "Well, well, here goes," said Tweed, and upped the ante...
...Manhattan Real Estate Man Irving Maidman, Tiffany & Co. resembled a piece of valuable antique silver, badly in need of polishing. Sure that big profits awaited the polisher, Maidman began buying Tiffany stock early last year. By early 1955, claiming control of almost 10% of the company's 132,451 shares of stock, he asked Tiffany President Louis de B. Moore for a voice in management, demanded that the store catch up with "modern merchandising" (one of his suggestions: sell Tiffany's silver polish in chain stores...
...Craig D. Munson, 56, became president of International Silver of Meriden, Conn., world's largest silverware manufacturer (1954 sales: $64 million), succeeding the late Maltby Stevens. Born in nearby Wallingford, Munson prepped at Wallingford's Choate School, went on to Yale (where he rowed in the varsity), and to work for International in 1920, beginning as a salesman. In 1928, Munson moved up to general advertising manager of International's sterling silver division and a member of the board; seven years later he became International's sales vice president...
...saying that "Prussian eagles, even when sitting, must be represented as if they were flying." No great soldier himself, he worried his general staff, as Author Kürenberg puts it, by "losing himself more and more in external trappings, designing new uniforms and braidings or inventing cords and silver whistles for dispatch riders." He could be arrogant enough to tell King Alfonso of Spain publicly to go back and put his uniform on right, so incredibly undiplomatic as to say at the death of his uncle, King Edward VII of England: "An outstanding political personality has suddenly disappeared from...