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...November 1940 came the fateful disagreement over the postwar swag. Stalin demanded bases on the Dardanelles and staked his claim on the Persian Gulf area as "the center of the aspirations of the Soviet Union." Hitler balked. The next month he issued his directive for "Operation Barbarossa": "to crush Soviet Russia in a quick campaign...
...evil work went on. It was carried on by his underlings: Seymour Weiss, who once ran Huey's favorite barbershop and who handled the swag and kept no records; Abe Shushan, the dry-goods dealer who became president of the Levee Board; James Monroe ("Doc") Smith, president of the university; and big George Caldwell, superintendent of buildings at L.S.U. There were others, like Robert Maestri (rhymes with pastry), the conservation commissioner who later became New Orleans' mayor. And there was Earl, Huey's less talented brother. "I ain't like Huey," Earl admitted. "I gotta...
...shark had bitten a thin slab off the top of the right forearm. On the under side were teeth marks, half an inch deep. Back on the raft, Nagurney had his arm bandaged, but he was not finished. A lieutenant (j.g.) had become delirious and had taken a swag of sea water. Nagurney pounced on him, rammed his finger down the officer's throat to make him vomit. The lieutenant bit Nagurney's finger. Nagurney's summation: "I guess I'm the only guy that's ever been bit by a shark and an officer...
...scalpers 16 Miami ticket agents and clerks, 14 Miami hotel flunkies, and one Miami cabby. J. Edgar Hoover said the Miami gang had been making a profit of $15,000 to $20,000 a month; three of the scalpers were even planning to buy a hotel with their swag...
...gradually rewritten 1) to command every professor's full time for eleven months a year at an improved salary, 2) to pour into the University's coffers whatever money facultymen earn from lecturing, broadcasting, publishing outside the University. But Hutchins will let a Nobel Prizewinner keep his swag; he regards that (sometimes as much as $46,000) as "unearned income." > Hutchins announced the election to a University Vice-Presidency of Wilbur Cheney Munnecke, who for four years has held a similar title at the Marshall Field department store. Munnecke will coordinate University business affairs. Vice President Emery Thomas...