Word: friends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to the union's president, Howard Coughlin, O.P.E.U. had been interested in trying to organize the dealers in Las Vegas for several years. Last summer the union's chief counsel, Cleveland Attorney Joseph Finley, was approached by a "highly reputable" friend, Lawyer Robert Duvin. Duvin introduced Nardi and Francis as legitimate labor organizers who could unionize the dealers for O.P.E.U. if they could get a charter. Supported by Duvin's high recommendation, Nardi and Francis were quickly approved and received their charter from O.P.E.U. Although their initial organizing attempts were resisted by some casino operators...
Kennedy manipulated stocks and securities with a shrewdness close to genius. He sensed disaster approaching in 1929 and well extricated himself from the stock market before the crash. He made at least $1,000,000 by selling short when the panic came. "Only a fool," he told a friend, "holds out for the top dollar." Foreseeing the end of Prohibition, he cornered the franchise for Gordon's gin and several Scotch whiskies, imported thousands of cases "for medicinal purposes." When repeal came, Kennedy warehouses were bulging and ready for business...
...father, reading from The Fruitful Bough, a privately printed book of essays about the ambassador. Boston's craggy Richard Cardinal Gushing, who has married, baptized and buried the Kennedys for 24 years, delivered a twelve-minute "personal tribute to the character and genius of a longtime friend...
...heirs may sometimes be hard pressed. At his death, Bob Kennedy left campaign debts and expenses of more than $3,000,000, which his estate could not pay. Edward M. Kennedy has raised money to repay these debts, and other members of the family have made contributions. A close friend of Ethel's, recalling the "extravagance of the ebullient life" that she, Bob and the children enjoyed, hints that income and outgo run a neck-and-neck race in her household as in the ordinary American...
...many years ago, an enormously successful businessman who had built a corporation from scratch reflected on the career of his friend Joe Kennedy: "Joe was a pure capitalist, not the Wall Street kind. The Wall Street establishment has a bias on the bull side. Joe didn't. He never took responsibility for building or running anything. But he had money sense. He knew what to use his money for-how to have fun with it. Joe bought all those houses. He made all those movies. He understood about buying himself positions in government-London, for example. And he knew...