Word: turnip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taken for the stigmata of genius; petty fears mushroom to paranoia. A Gulbenkian day began with setting-up exercises. Swedish massage and a bowl of yoghurt. Mr Five Per Cent was a health faddist, and for a time lived on a massive diet of carrots washed down with turnip juice. His father had lived to 106. and Gulbenkian fully expected to reach 120. To avoid dust, he sat only on leather cushions, slept on a leather mattress, and had the air of his Paris mansion filtered through silk screens and fine sprays of water. He reduced his handshake, proffering only...
After word of the new indictment reached turnip-shaped Dave Beck in Los Angeles, where he was meeting with the Teamsters executive board, he called a press conference, passed the charges off as something that has happened to many a good, red-blooded American. Said Beck: "I've joined the army of hundreds of thousands all over the country that have been indicted for income taxes. It's happening every day all over America." Anyhow, his troubles were all the fault of the meddlesome U.S. Congress-which, cried Dave, has "one or more" former convicts among its members...
...Grande Immigration Service patrolmen peered from their light plane in search of the Mexican wetbacks who would, if they could, slip across the border in illegal droves to work on U.S. ranches. In Tacoma, Wash, a federal grand jury accused David Daniel Beck, a labor giant with a turnip torso, of , cheating on his income taxes. In Manhattan one of the hottest security cases in years was unfolding behind grand jury doors with the confession of Communist Spies Jack and Myra Soble and their accomplice, Jacob Albam. In Pennsylvania Bethlehem Steel Corp. lawyers worked and planned against the multimillion-dollar...
...joined the Teamsters, spent two years in the Army during and after World War I, and returned to Seattle to become recording secretary of the Teamsters' Local 174 in 1921. His salary: $2 a month. During those early years, he was senior to and far overshadowed a turnip-shaped young Seattle Teamster named Dave Beck. "Frank had the interests of the working stiff at heart," recalls a Teamster veteran. "He'd put his neck on the line any time to sign up a new member, while Dave was making speeches at union meetings." But in 1925, when...
This week, faced with a probable vote of no confidence from his 39 Deputies if he continued the talks with the Communists, Prince Souvanna Phouma broke them off. Prince Souphanouvong could only return to his thatch-hut capital in Samneua. leaving the villa and the turnip garden behind...