Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles Green is a New York appliance wholesaler with a talent for proxy fights. In his first fight in 1949, he won control of Minneapolis' & St. Paul's Twin City Rapid Transit Co. with the help of such people as Nightclub Proprietor Isadore Blumenfeld (alias Kid Cann), a wealthy Minneapolis hoodlum with a record of 30 arrests. Later, Green squabbled with his associates and sold out his stock in Minneapolis Transit at an estimated $100,000 profit. In 1951 Green went after the management of United Cigar-Whelan Stores because they had not been paying dividends, succeeded...
...creaking old dual-identity plot. This time Richard Greene is cast as 1) a gypsy knife thrower, and 2) a dashing nobleman who espouses (circa 1830) the cause of Corsican freedom against French Tyrant Raymond Burr. It seems that the nobleman and the gypsy are Siamese twins. Though severed by surgery, they are still tied to each other by a strange spiritual bond. Before long, the twins join forces against the tyrant who finds himself seeing double. Additional complications set in when twin No. 1 (the gypsy) develops a more than spiritual interest in the beautiful wife (Paula Raymond...
...twin brothers invoked the Fifth Amendment in testimony before the Jenner Committee on Thursday and Friday, March 26 and 27. They refused to answer questions about Communist organizing activities at Cornell, New York, and the Law School, on the grounds that it might tend to incriminate them...
Jonathan W. and David L. Lubell, second year Law School twin brothers, were called before closed hearings of the Jenner Committee yesterday morning and were asked to bring copies of the last two year's Law School Record (weekly newspaper) with them, the CRIMSON learned yesterday...
...world's first man-carrying aircraft designed to take off under its own power and operate at sustained supersonic speeds in level flight." (Other high-speed craft carry fuel for only a few minutes of powered flight.) Built by Douglas Aircraft Co., the twin-jet X-3 is expected to set new speed and altitude records...