Word: wheeler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...level of bestseller lists and staying there for months-despite the fact that, when it appeared in 1958, it attracted no more critical attention than its nonsensical content of pseudo medicine and pseudo science deserved. Probably least surprised by Folk Medicine's success was 64-year-old Texas Wheeler-Dealer Clint Murchison (TIME cover, May 24, 1954), a disciple of Dr. Jarvis' Honegar cult, who persuaded him to write the book and persuaded Holt to publish it-no trick, since Murchison controls Henry Holt...
Financier Allan P. Kirby, boss of Alleghany Corp. since the death of Robert R. Young almost two years ago, got a telephone call last week from another big moneyman. The caller: Boston's Abraham M. Sonnabend, the real estate wheeler-dealer who heads Hotel Corp. of America, Botany Industries, and a fistful of other companies. Could they set up a meeting some time later in the week? Kirby knew why. For months, Sonnabend and a group of associates had been quietly buying Alleghany stock, and they owned some 700,000 shares, or about 14% of the common stock outstanding...
...Cambridge Civic Association has again failed to gain a majority on the City Council, obtaining only the same four seats it held during the previous term. Incumbents Edward A. Crane '35, Cornelia B. Wheeler, Pearl K. Wise, and Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 were the only CCA-endorsed candidates to gain election...
Trailing these two were Cornelia B. Wheeler, Andrew T. Trodden, Alfred Vellucci, Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, Thomas M. McNamara, Charles A. Watson, and John D. Lynch. All these candidates have between 1,824 and 2,282 first place votes...
...City Council, CCA-endorsed incumbents include former Mayor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, former Mayor Edward A. Crane '35, Mrs. Pearl K. Wise, and Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler. Present Mayor Thomas M. McNamara often voted with these Councillors during his two-year term, frequently giving the CCA a slim majority on the Council. Yet solidarity among the CCA bloc is by no means assured, and is frequently non-existent...