Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turkey in the Straw. After that, things got hotter, and Greek Ambassador Athanase Politis called a square dance. Said an admiring guest: "He never saw a turkey or knew about straw, but he is one hell of a caller." Senator Estes Kefauver, onetime presidential candidate, boyishly hooked his arm around a tent pole and spun three complete turns. The Tennessee statesman, as usual, had a word to say. "Whee!" was the word. Speaker Joseph Martin grinned his friendly, lumpy grin. Senator Styles Bridges rang a locomotive bell and shouted "All aboard...
Globetrotting Adlai Stevenson whipped into Cyprus, pausing just long enough to announce that when he gets home he will visit the White House, at President Eisenhower's invitation. Then he was off to Turkey where he took a swim in the Bosporus and chatted with India Edwards, vice chairman of the U.S. Democratic National Committee, before pushing off for Belgrade, Yugoslavia...
...Bodo Athanassiades is known to his friends as the man who made five fortunes and lost four. His enemies add a footnote; he has made his fortunes by nimbly hopping to the right political side at the right time. The son of a poor truck farmer who lived in Turkey, Bodo attended school for only a few months at the age of nine. Later he taught himself to read and write (and to speak four languages). He developed an eye for a quick profit at an early age, while driving a donkey to market carrying his father's produce...
...brothers (now dead), and supply sources throughout the Middle East, Athanassiades amassed a fortune of $50 million in gold in four years. At war's end, Bodo, then 25, was "the richest Greek in the world." But, four years later, when Kemal Ataturk threw the Greeks out of Turkey, he was wiped out again. He moved to Athens, got into the tile business, and went bust once more. Says he: "I had to start again from the letter alpha...
...Where the Foreign Ministers of Turkey, Greece and Yugoslavia signed a mutual friendship pact...