Word: stickpin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortcut. In Springfield, Mass., a thief rushed up to Pedestrian Dennis Kneeland, snipped off part of his necktie, missed by an inch getting his $150 diamond stickpin...
...corporation's favored sons, a man marked for tempering and testing under the hard eye of G.E.'s stern President Gerard Swope himself. A year later Bill Ruete died. Just before he passed away, he said: "You know, Charlie, that stickpin of mine has been the secret of your success. You worked your head off for it. So here it is." Charlie locked the pin up in a box and, with a characteristic gesture, added a provision to his will, directing that the pin go to Bill Ruete'c grandnephew...