Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...churches and crippled children. But many times Mott dug into his own pocket for direct aid as well. In 1929, after some bank employees embezzled $3,600,000, Mott shelled out enough money to save the bank; it cost him more than $1,000,000 in co!d cash. In later years he donated millions of dollars for library buildings, the Flint Junior College, a swimming pool and a school for handicapped children...
...crank. Before Ivanov was recalled to Moscow* in January 1963, he aroused suspicion in other ways. A bridge player who took a hand in some very high-level games, he lost steadily, as much as $140 a night. "I do not believe the Soviet embassy's petty cash would stand such losses every night," said one Labor M.P. caustically, "unless they got something...
...work and short of cash, Christine became the mistress of a rich RollsRoyce-driving real estate man, who set her up in a luxurious flat off Baker Street. But the affair proved unsatisfactory, and she went to work as a waitress, then as a showgirl in Murray's Cabaret Club. "And then," Christine said, "I began meeting my first interesting male companions...
...Courtesy Club's card entitles a holder only to pay cash. But when a holder presents it at any of the 2,500 participating restaurants, hotels, motels and resorts in 42 states, he gets a 10% discount...
...nicely balanced mixture of scholar and bookie with an encyclopedic knowledge of the masters and a computer-like memory (he once spotted an unidentified Watteau, got it for $30), who inherited the house of Wildenstein from his father Nathan in 1934, carried on the family tradition of spot cash for multimillion-dollar collections, blue-chip customers (from Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum to Stavros Niarchos) and controversy (he caused a national uproar in 1960 after he outbid the Louvre for a De La Tour, then exported it to the Met, making himself a profit of at least...