Word: william
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WILLIAM J. PRUTZMAN...
Costello also "laid off" bets with big bookies and kept a finger in real estate. After repeal, with financial backing from William Helis, the "Golden Greek" (who demanded 20,000 cases of choice Scotch for security), Costello and Kastel bought control of Britain's Whiteley Distillery, producers of House of Lords and King's Ransom Scotch. The board of directors agreed to pay Costello ?5,000 ($24,400) a year simply for "frequenting first-class hotels and restaurants and asking to be supplied with the company's brands." But the slot machines were Costello's gold...
...force in the world, have policed 600,000 natives who live in hopeless poverty. When a typhoon (dubbed "Gloria" by meteorologists) swept the island last summer and caused widespread damage, the Army finally investigated the situation. The island's command was shaken up. Major General William W. Eagles, commander of ground forces, was replaced by breezy Major General Josef R. Sheetz, a convivial hustler who had done an able military government job in Korea. Air Force troops on Okinawa are commanded by grey, quiet-spoken Major General Alvin C. ("Ack-Ack") Kincaid, whose slightly absent-minded philosopher...
FAMOUS AMERICAN ATHLETES OF TODAY (Eleventh Series), by Frank Waldman '41, with an introduction by William J. Dingham '10, L. C. Page and Company, Boston...
...Hugh B. Williams '51 and Frederick F. Williams, Jr. '50, no relation, were apprehended in the act of removing the sign by patrolman William Mullen, who brought them to the Dedham Jail, where they spent the night. In the morning the judge fined them $10 each, and Hugh Williams an additional $35 for driving under the influence of alcohol...