Word: woole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wool on the Hound's Tooth
...third of Syria's wool exports (ten times last year's amount) and more than half of the cotton crop will go this year to the Soviet bloc. Although Syrian Communist Boss Khaled Bakdash fled to Moscow when the union was proclaimed, the Communist newspaper Al Noor still publishes the Red line. And Damascus Radio echoes it. Sample broadcast about Lebanon: "The U.S. has taken off the fancy dress hiding her real identity as a slippery snake trying to emit poison, suck blood and eat human flesh...
...Adams called Federal Trade Commission Chairman Edward F. Howrey to ask for the source of an FTC complaint against Goldfine for putting a "90% wool, 10% vicuña" label on cloth that actually contained some nylon. ¶ On April 14, 1955, when Goldfine was investigated again on the same charge, Adams got him an appointment to meet Chairman Howrey. Once there, Goldfine waved the Adams name like a magic sledge hammer. "Please get Sherman Adams on the line for me," he ordered, loud enough for nearby FTC staffers to hear. "Sherm, I'm over...
...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...
...Lure of Paris. The assured tone of De Gaulle's telegram set the diehards back on their heels. They quickly discovered that they were being "betrayed" not only by De Gaulle but by some of their local heroes as well. Leon Delbecque, the zealot wool salesman who got the settlers and soldiers together in the first place (TIME, June 9), returned from a flying trip to France "to see my sick daughter," full of penitence for his earlier fiery criticisms of De Gaulle's Cabinet. He unctuously proclaimed: "Unity behind General de Gaulle must be complete . . . We must...