Word: dealings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought up at the U.N., at his suggestion. As for the Vandenberg proposal: he didn't think it necessary or advisable. Two hours later, broad-shouldered Brien McMahon of Connecticut rose to speak in the Senate. No scientist (he was a wealthy trial lawyer, and a New Deal officeholder before being elected to the Senate), he had been shocked into grave concern during long, secret sessions of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy over which he had presided. For 30 minutes the Senate chamber was still as he spoke...
...yesterday, they carried the story that Art Valpey had resigned his coaching position at Harvard to take another at the University of Connecticut. Although I have not bad the opportunity to poll the alumni in this area, I am certain that the majority received both reports with a great deal of disappointment, as well as resentment...
This week Henderson took the Montreal train again, to clinch the deal with Montreal's Hotelman Vernon G. Cardy, who is equally well-known as a horseman. ("There is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse"). For an undisclosed sum, Henderson would get the majority stock in six hotels with reported assets of $15.8 million, including two of Canada's largest-Montreal's 1,100-room Mount Royal and Toronto's 1,100-room King Edward. The others: Hamilton's Royal Connaught, Windsor's Prince Edward...
...finance the latest deal, Henderson had already sold the Lord Elgin (for $2,450,000 in cash), and the Sheraton Hotel in Philadelphia and was negotiating to sell the Sheraton in Newark, N.J. He expects to sell Toronto's Ford soon. If such quick changes were bewildering to Sheraton stockholders, they had also proved profitable: in the chain's last fiscal year ending in April 1949, Henderson had boosted the net from $1.6 million to $3.3 million after taxes. At the latest count, he figured his Sheraton Corp. had 31 hotels in 26 cities. His pride: Manhattan...
Shelley has been deported so often for misbehavior that she is now down to her last island. Blackmailer Cognac (Luther Adler) hires her to sing in his cafe, and to sweet-talk Macdonald Carey out of some information on a wartime Jap rubber-smuggling deal...