Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Labor Racket. Accardo, arrogant in cafe society suit and dark sunglasses, refused last week to tell the U.S. Senate labor-management investigating committee anything about his high standard of living, or how he keeps it. Testifying under subpoena, he set the style for six other professional gangsters who uniformly claimed that to talk at all would be to risk selfincrimination. Accardo let a total of 172 questions pass without answer. Samples: Where were you born? Do you operate your affairs to get control of unions? Do you have any scruples against killing? Do you have any respect for your government...
...life organizing clubs. In those days the luncheon club was primarily a meeting place for businessmen who wanted to meet businessmen. Rotary's pin was reserved for the town's leading man in each line of business; second-ranking Kiwanis, later tagged "the grey flannel suit boys" by Lions, used "We Trade" as its motto and admitted only two members from each recognized local enterprise...
...first Goldfine, groomed in a dark blue suit and "B.G."-initialed blue silk tie, walked into the packed subcommittee hearing room chin up but eyes downcast, escorted by a retinue of three lawyers, devoted employees and jewelry-hung wife. When Subcommittee Chairman Oren Harris administered the oath, Goldfine helplessly mouthed words, cleared a frog from his throat and finally croaked: "I do." Then he launched into the 25-page statement that the lawyers and pressagents had written, right down to grammatical errors, to fit his role of the common but honest...
...Colored People out of business in Dixie, one of the hardest punches was a $100,000 contempt-of-court fine levied in 1956 against the Alabama N.A.A.C.P. Offense: refusing to obey a court order to hand over membership lists as evidence in the state government's still pending suit to bar the N.A.A.C.P. from operating in Alabama. Turning over the lists, protested the N.A.A.C.P., would expose members to harassment...
Previewing a style that might catch on for such sports as spelunking or Gaelic football for girls, Queen Elizabeth II donned black boots, bright white helmet and floppy boiler suit for a visit to the Rothes Colliery in Fife. As Britain's first pit-hopping Queen, Her Majesty drew gushes for the garb from the watchful press, even earned a wee handclap from fussy Royal Couturier Norman Hartnell: "Being English, of course she looks marvelous in all sports clothes...