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Word: vicuna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Exchange Commission, Senator Cotton called the SEC's general counsel into the office of New Hampshire Senator Styles Bridges to put in a good word for Goldfine. Also present: Goldfine's old and great friend, Maine's Republican Senator Fred Payne. Payne has admitted receiving vicuna coats and hotel hospitality from Bernard Goldfine. And last week to a TIME reporter he confirmed a rumor that had received considerable currency around Washington: in 1952, Goldfine had advanced Payne $3,500 of the $5.000 needed for down payment on the purchase of Payne's $22,500 home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOLDFINE PRESSAGENTS FORGOT: Pols, Dummies & Deals | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...once gave Goldfine a gold watch and at other times some of Mrs. Adams' oil paintings. But newsmen were more interested in a rumor (it was true) that Goldfine bought the Adamses a $2,400 Oriental rug from Macy's, and had a tailor make Adams a vicuna coat worth at least $500 retail (wholesale cost to Goldfine: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Broken Rule | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

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