Word: lavishness
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...fixing activities in the halcyon days of the Truman Administration. Sample charge: Grunewald swore before a House Ways and Means Subcommittee in 1953 that he had never discussed tax matters with his pal, Daniel Bolich,* although Bolich, then Assistant Commissioner of Internal Revenue, shared Grunewald's lavish hospitality and his Washington hotel suite for more than a year...
Owner Bray figures that if he does not cut corners sharply, the alternative is to fold up the club. He is not impressed by bush-league owners who operate with a more lavish hand. "They're going after this thing like they were major-leaguers-chartering big buses, staying in good hotels, hiring a lot of help," says...
...such gimmicks successful? Most often not, since fancy premiums and lavish advertising come out of the dealers' 24% markup on the car, not out of the manufacturers' profit...
...huge opening-night program featured no fewer than 13 separate items, from brief solo dances and pas de deux to the whole third act from Romeo and Juliet. For Western tastes, the costumes were both overly lavish and tacky (although the ballerinas are usually sewn into them), and the sets seemed stodgy. But the dancing was just about as good as legend...
...heels of an insurgent victory in the New Haven battle, Chicago Lawyer Ben W. Heineman unseated (307,859 votes to 219,373) the management of the 1,397-mile Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, whose main line runs from Minneapolis to Peoria, 111. Heineman, who built his campaign around the lavish expense accounts (up to $100,000 in one year) of Board Chairman Lucian C. Sprague, plans to trim expenses, raise dividends...