Word: entrepreneurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warm." Another doggedly uncommunicative witness was a sullen, gum-chewing ex-convict, Anthony Lopiparo, a pinball-machine entrepreneur. At first Tony wouldn't even tell the committee whether he had ever visited Tijuana, Mexico (where, rumor had it, the murder of Kansas City's Charles Binaggio was plotted). "I stand on my constitutional rights," he muttered. "Haven't I got a Constitution?" Finally, however, Tony broke down and confessed. "I like it down there," said he. "It's warm...
Back in 1936, an entrepreneur named Willie Moretti decided to go into the laundry business. For a mere $3,000 he bought the U.S. Linen Supply Co., Inc in Paterson, N.J. Willie had one handicap; he was an ex-convict. But he had assets to offset it: he had known Al Capone socially, and Frank Costello himself had been best man at Willie's wedding...
...Entrepreneur. In Bloomington, Ind., the Monroe County clerk got a letter from one Walter Sadlick, an ex-serviceman, who explained that he had married to get a bigger student's allotment under the G.I. bill, but that now, as his eligibility for benefits was running out, "we would naturally like to abolish the marriage...
Died. William A. Brady, 86, self-made theatrical producer and entrepreneur, father of one famous actress (the late Alice Brady) and husband of another (Grace George); in Manhattan. Producer of some 260 plays, including such outstanding hits as 'Way Down East, The First Mrs. Fraser and Street Scene, Brady found time on the side to manage Heavyweight Champions James J. ("Jim") Corbett and James J. ("Jim") Jeffries...
...known principally for his contributions to business cycle theory, for his application of mathematics to economic problems, and for his study of the entrepreneur as the innovator responsible for economic changes...