Word: solness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee to leave the voters alone. For his part, Michigan Republican George Romney, his voice weakened by a cold, joked bitterly about the Democrats and Cuba: "First they wanted Joe Kennedy to go down there and buy it. If that didn't work, they planned to send Billie Sol Estes down there to steal it. And if that didn't work, they'd have sent Harry Truman down there to tell 'em where...
Losing Their Shirts. Behind this recovery is an enthusiastic underwear salesman with a policy of "prudent aggression." He is balding Sol Kittay, 52, a British immigrant who rose from a $12-a-week office-boy's job to become a successful salesman casting around for a firm of his own. In 1945, with savings and a borrowed $100,000, he bought a rundown Ohio textile mill, put it back in the black, started expanding. Within six years, he was big enough to buy B.V.D...
...might have on foreign affairs." But he seems likely to lose to Rogers Morton, 48, a strapping (6 ft. 7 in., 245 Ibs.) younger brother ot Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton. Texas Democrat J. T. ("Slick") Rutherford, who accepted a $1 500 "campaign contribution" from Billie Sol Estes shortly after setting up a meeting with Agriculture Department officials now finds himself seriously threatened in his 300-mile-wide district by Republican Ed Foreman, an Odessa businessman who brings up Billie Sol at every stop...
...neighboring farmers. In the 35 years since, Dumas Milner has never stopped selling, and last week he did his biggest buying and selling yet. Breaking off the biggest single chunk of his $60 million Southern empire, Milner swapped his thriving household-products business (Perma Starch, Mystic Foam Cleaner, Pine-Sol) with American Cyanamid for $11 million in Cyanamid stock. At the same time, he sold off a parcel of Southern hotels and motels for $10 million in cash...
...then, some chain member still flashes signs of the old crusading fire, historically a hallmark of Scripps-Howard papers. Two Scripps-Howard Washington reporters dug up some of the first pay dirt in the Billie Sol Estes scandal. The Wash ington Daily News has crusaded loudly against expensive junkets and payroll padding by U.S. Congressmen. On the editorial side, Scripps-Howard's Washington-based editorialists have come out for sanity in the federal budget, against unilateral tax cuts, against wasting troops in Laos ("We cannot save a far-off country which doesn't care whether it is saved...