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Badger All-Risk Fiduciary
11, Badger is a long-standing producer of fire extinguishers, primarily of the soda-acid and copper-and-brass varieties. "All-risk" is a type of insurance policy covering a broad range of events, a product which would not likely be offered by a fire extinguisher company.
Basie, "Count" (1904-1984)
26, Count Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1929, the 25-year-old Basie became the pianist with the Bennie Moten band based in Kansas City. Wikipedia
Basnight, Lew
42, Thessalie refers Hicks to him for “insurance.” In Against the Day (2006), Pynchon’s sixth novel, Lew Basnight is a “spotter” for White City Investigations in Chicago. Read more…
Bolshevik
15, The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). The Bolshevik party, formally established in 1912, seized power in Russia in the October Revolution of 1917 and was later renamed the Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party, and ultimately the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Its ideology, based on Leninist and later Marxist–Leninist principles, became known as Bolshevism.
Since that time, pretty much anyone or any organization or group that is pro-worker, protests on behalf of workers, etc., is derogatorily called "Bolshevic" or "Commie" or, during the reign of Trump, "radical left lunatics."
"'Bolshevik' was a popular insult being thrown around at strikes and marches, meaning people whose heads he [Hicks] was being paid to bust," 31
