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...occasion, the Senators brought forth an Interesting Character-none other than "Greasy Thumb" Guzik, once Scarface Al Capone's chancellor of exchequer, and now one of the monarchs of the Chicago underworld...
McGeorge Bundy, lecturer on Government agreed with MacLeish that containment was toe passive a foreign policy. "What is necessary is active opposition to Soviet imperialism. You can't just build the dike and then put your thumb...
...Capone syndicate. Headquarters: Chicago. Command and staff: the heirs of Al Capone-vulture-eyed Tony Accardo; dapper Charles Fischetti, Al Capone's cousin; Jake ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik. The Capone Syndicate's specialty: bookmaking. with a secondary interest in policy wheels...
When the issues are large, tempers are often short. Ex-Ambassador to China Pat Hurley verbally flayed two newsmen on the show. After Elliott Roosevelt's appearance, one of his friends punched Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. In the same melee, Moderator Rountree got a sprained thumb...
When he was 35, Franz Rosenzweig fell ill of a creeping paralysis which eventually robbed him even of the power to speak and left him only an uncertain power of movement in his right thumb. Yet, by indicating with his thumb the letters of the alphabet, he was able to complete a body of theological work that has made him one of the most important figures in modern Jewish theology. In 1929, before he was 43, Franz Rosenzweig died...