Word: vaccaro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sneeze, One Paragraph. The correspondents have something more to gripe about than the White House colorlessness. They are exceedingly jealous of any signs of presidential favoritism-and there have been some. On the President's trip to Independence, fortnight ago, Harry Truman invited A.P.'s Tony Vaccaro and U.P.'s Merriman Smith to join in a poker game. The I.N.S. reporter (a substitute) was left out, presumably because the President did not know him very well. Also left out were specials like the New York Herald Tribune's Washington chief, Bert Andrews, the Chicago...
Getting into a White House Cadillac, he spied Associated Pressman Ernest B. Vaccaro, who had been assigned to watch the Truman apartment. "C'mon in, Tony," said the President. Tony hopped into the Presidential car. Driving down Connecticut Avenue, President Truman made it clear that he had no illusions about the immense difficulty of his job or about the greatness of the leader he followed. He was frightened, but he was also determined. "There have been few men in all history the equal of the man into whose shoes I am stepping. I pray God I can measure...
Died. Felix Philip Vaccaro, 77, youngest of New Orleans' famed, fruit-rich Vaccaro brothers; after long illness; in New Orleans. With his brothers Joseph and the late Lucca, bull-necked Felix built a fortune of many millions on the basis of a schooner load of Honduran bananas. By the '30s the silent Italian trio were powers in (largely Louisianian) orange groves, ships, chemicals, banks, presses, oil, ice, hotels, real estate, insurance...