Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...task force through New England. From New York to Boston went Fiscal Specialist George Bookman. Chicago's Jon Rinehart canvassed Maine, Chicago's Ed Reingold poked into musty Massachusetts court records, Boston's Ken Froslid was in New Hampshire, and Stringer Correspondent Bill Kearns filed from Vermont. For the result of their coverage of Goldfine's fast-shuffling financial affairs, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Goldfine Pressagents Forgot...
Timber Line. Vermont-born Llewellyn Sherman Adams grew up in the stern standards of rural New England, and he is stubborn, frugal and contradictory as only a rural Yankee can be. His parents were divorced after they moved to Providence, when Sherm was a boy, and he lived mostly with his mother, but he spent his summers in Vermont under the tutelage of his grandfather. He scratched through four years at Dartmouth, studying economics, singing (basso) in the glee club, hiking the hills and mountains of the north country. For 18 years Adams worked for a lumber company in Lincoln...
Even more surprising was the number of rank-and-file party workers-already in real trouble fighting the Democratic tide, already aware that Ike is of little value in local elections-who are appalled at the thought of the Administration's being a deadweight. Only four G.O.P. Senators, Vermont's George Aiken and Ralph Flanders, New York's Jacob Javits, Kansas' Frank Carlson, supported the President's stand on Adams-and they are not candidates...
...have to start small, work hard and do what you can," said Bernie Goldfine who did well enough in World War I to start buying mills for himself. His loose-woven little empire (now grown to six mills employing 1,372 in Maine, Vermont. Massachusetts and New Hampshire) never became a major factor in the industry, but it gave him the funds to begin major investments in real estate in mid-Depression. One day he heard that Western Union wanted to build on a choice block near the financial district, so he bought a corner building as a toe hold...
...doesn't have a lawyer, he's got a bar association." cracks one Boston barrister. Goldfine took considerable pride in having stylish cloth woven at Vermont's Northfield Mills out of the wool from South America's vicuñas, getting it tailored into coats for friends such as Adams and Payne. By his standards his was the open, honest hand of friendship, and what he got in return was only the kind of help one friend would render another. Says one of his closest Boston friends: "He's a name dropper and a Scotch...