Word: unc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lucrative combination of S. & L.s and insurance prompted Justice Department antitrusters to investigate his operations, but the inquiry was soon dropped. "They call Uncle Howard an octopus," said his nephew and business associate, Bill Ahmanson, a few years ago. "But the worst that can be said about Unc is that he lives to build capital and to run his own show...
...different story. From the FBI in Washington came evidence that Helen Kroger was, in fact, Lona Petka of Adams, Mass., and her husband was Morris Cohen, sometime of New York City, who had played guard on Monroe High's championship 1927 football team. Teammates remembered him as "Unc," for his likeness then to Uncle Walt of the Gasoline Alley comic strip. Unc Cohen went on to take a degree at Mississippi State College, later fought with the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War (his nom de guerre: Israel Altman), hired out as a guard at the Soviet pavilion during...