Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nightclub because of alleged patronage by gamblers, Parrish charges the league's very roots were sunk from the start in the subsoil of big-time gambling. The late Tim Mara, longtime owner of the New York Giants, was once a legal bookmaker at New York race tracks. Art Rooney supposedly bought the Pittsburgh Steelers after winning $256,000 at Saratoga Race Track in 1927. Baltimore Colts Owner Carroll Rosenbloom has always been a high roller, according to Parrish. Other owners have been or still are connected with gambling casinos, bookmaking wire services and race tracks...
...with red paint. Congress was the veterans' chief target. As John Kerry, leader of Dewey Canyon III, won warm applause for his testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (see box, following page), knots of other veterans buttonholed Senators and Representatives. One constituent of Brooklyn Democrat John Rooney complained: "He gerrymandered me out of his district on the spot." Another group found itself riding the Senate subway with Republican Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a "hot" hawk, in veterans' parlance. "Boys, we all want this war to end, but we want it to end in an honorable...
...Exec [after long pause): You know ... I like it. I really do. I like it. [Executives on bench make noises of enthusiasm.] For the kid, we'll get that small actor from Strawberry and Executioner. You know, the one who reminds me of Mickey Rooney...
...G.O.P. says) to retain his seat. His G.O.P. challenger, John S. Wold, aided by a fund-raising dinner that featured Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, put $150,000 to $250,000 into his campaign. The gubernatorial race was cheap compared with other states: Democrat John Rooney, the loser, spent $15,000; winning Republican Stanley Hathaway outspent Rooney by 100%a total of $30,000. Teno Roncalio sank $29,000 into his successful race for the House, some of it in long-term loans; G.O.P. Candidate Harry Roberts spent $50,000 (the G.O.P. says) to $90,000 (the Democrats...
...like recessions," says Francis Rooney, president of Melville Shoe Corp., "but we also know how much they help our business." This spring Rooney's company, which sells a low-price line through its Thom McAn and Meldisco divisions, was helped to a 20% increase in sales over the same period in 1969. Rooney's case is not unusual. Adversity has always smiled on a lucky few, and the present economic downturn that is bringing travail to many companies is pure serendipity for others...