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...taking a bath, but Joe didn't seem to mind. Said he: "Money ain't everything, unless a poor guy ain't got it." Once when a crony told Joe that he wanted to put on an all-Negro show, Joe reached mechanically for his checkbook, asked his friend, "Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Money Ain't Everything | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

Connecting with his relationship with Miss Prince was a $3.26 entry in Parkhurst's Cambridge Trust Company checkbook. The check was made out to the Tax Collector of South Hamilton, Miss Prince's home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Records Show Parkhurst in Draft Scandal | 1/10/1947 | See Source »

...half used checkbook also showed the stubs of checks made out for a "World's Series Box," and large sums paid out to the Club 100 and The Ritz, St. Regis, and Sherry-Netherland Hotels in New York City...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Records Show Parkhurst in Draft Scandal | 1/10/1947 | See Source »

...Dwyer, who desperately wanted to keep U.N. in New York, hurriedly got in touch with a potent member of his U.N. site committee, young Nelson Rockefeller, just in by plane from Mexico. Nelson immediately got in touch with his dad, John D. Jr. John D. got out his checkbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: First Avenue, New York | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...State Department charges that Argentine colonels had sparked the tyranny of Bolivian majors. To the Perón crowd, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden and Capitalism (in that order) were to blame. Shrieked a Perón deputy: "Braden has a habit of arranging matters with his checkbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Bloque Blocked | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

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