Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mine. No matter where you are going to move, you are mine." During Hoffa's struggle to get control of the Teamster joint council in New York, Dio helped him set up seven fake "paper locals" to cast votes in a joint-council election. When Dio went to prison on an extortion rap in 1958, Hoffa gratefully promised to look after Dio's family...
...once suggested, news makes names, then the biggest names in U.S. presidential politics last week and in weeks past were Republican. G.O.P. Presidential Hopeful Richard Nixon made news whatever he did and wherever he went, addressing the Football Writers Association and attending the Baltimore Colts-College All-Star football game in Chicago, speaking on radio and television about his trip to Russia and Poland, even getting a surprise pat on the back from A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who praised the work of Nixon's anti-inflation committee. Republican Hopeful
...beat what the U.S. State Department calls "very good" chances of deporting him-and he has talented help. His attorney is Miamian David W. Walters, who performed a similar service for Cuban ex-President Carlos Prio Socarrás. Grinned Walters last week: "Prio stayed seven years and went back to Cuba voluntarily before we had exhausted anywhere near all the possibilities...
...taken by the highest flyers, the space-age electronics stocks, which have soared giddily in recent months. Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. fell 23¾ points on the American Exchange. So great was the confusion when trading in Fairchild Camera was suspended temporarily that Exchange President Edward T. McCormick went onto the floor to discuss the break at Fairchild's trading post. Other electronics stocks followed; Texas Instruments fell 3⅞, IBM 2½. Zenith 4⅛, Litton...
...Bonn put a $4.76-per-ton tariff on all coal imports exceeding 5,000,000 tons a year, mostly from the U.S. That only irritated U.S. producers. The tariff halved imports from the U.S. to 3,100,000 tons in the first six months of 1959, but German surpluses went up by almost 5,000,000 tons...