Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the rich racketeers who commute to their showplaces in the western Chicago suburb of River Forest (pop. 12,500), none lives in higher style than Anthony Joseph Accardo, 52, top banana in the crime syndicate founded by the late Al ("Scarface") Capone. Tough Accardo's $200,000 stone and concrete mansion, designed like a combination pleasure dome and pillbox, offers various conveniences: an indoor swimming pool, two bowling alleys, a pipe organ, a roof garden where strolling violinists play dinnertime waltzes, vast reception rooms, six master bedrooms, baths where the water flows from gold faucets, and-a special...
...please immigrant who had come to wealth and awakened astonished one day to find his name "in the newspapers all over America because of gifts and hospitality to a friend of almost 20 years." The second Goldfine told more about how he had become a millionaire in Massachusetts' tough, no-quarter textile and real estate world; that face was angry, the voice hard, the attitude belligerent, the answers evasive. And at week's end it was hard to say which Bernard Goldfine had most hurt his greatest friend, White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams...
Stuffed Pockets. The fact is that Jimmy can take care of his own troubles. Acquitted fortnight ago by a Manhattan federal court of charges that he conspired to tap the telephones of his fellow Teamster executives, Tough Guy Hoffa is gaining new strength day by day. Teamster membership is up (to more than 1,500,000), and Hoffa is setting up deals right and left with A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions, such as the brewery workers, butchers and carpenters, the effect of which is to undermine the strength of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. He even has in mind calling a new Teamster convention...
...Strict One. Tiny, tough Chen Cheng, who comes from the Gimo's home province of Chekiang, first caught his boss's eye after he was wounded fighting in the Canton army in 1923. Chiang made him an artillery instructor at Whampoa Military Academy (Chen took an instant dislike to a flashy young political instructor named Chou En-lai), then gave him the toughest combat assignments. Told to make order out of the postwar mess in Manchuria, Chen invited Manchurians to bring their complaints straight to him, and reportedly had 20 generals shot for stealing. Invalided south...
...current king of the proxy fighters is a tough-talking, dapper Washington lawyer named Alfons Landa, who admits that his role in more than half a dozen battles has made him "as popular as a skunk." Last week Landa, 60, won his biggest battle by unseating pudgy Leopold Silberstein, 54, from the sick Penn-Texas Corp., taking over as president at $36,000 a year. (Silberstein will collect $40,000 a year for five years as an "adviser.") Landa got into the fight nearly two years ago when Chicago's Fairbanks, Morse decided to back him financially...