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Promptly a Denver automobile dealer ; named Harry Leeman got out his checkbook, nudged George Mitchell, volunteered to make up the difference. Mitchell called: "$655." Jaedke made it $675. The bidding went on. Finally Jaedke reached $1,000 an acre...
With a fat checkbook and telepathic adroitness, "Don Carlos" promised people anything-usually what they wanted most. As fast as they succumbed and took the worthless checks, "Don Carlos" swore them to secrecy and admitted them to the society of the greedy but gullible. Most of them loved it. The late, onetime President Plutarco Elías Calles was said to have attended one of the meetings, called Noches de Balmori. The initiates included bankers who sought power, generals who grasped for office, musicians who wanted a career, women who wanted palatial homes. More than 100 women reportedly married...
Last week, as usual, Dealer Stieglitz was regarding prospective buyers with a critical eye. For sometimes, ownership of an O'Keeffe requires considerably more than a checkbook: the money must be accompanied by certain spiritual, emotional and intellectual qualifications satisfactory to Dealer Stieglitz...
Hope Wanes. Occasionally he thumbed through his Bank of Guam checkbook, which showed he had a balance of $221.81, and idly figured up how much back pay he now had coming to him. He wondered how he had made out in his examination for chief. Frequently and anxiously he wondered too about his wife and two young sons, who must have given him up for dead. He wondered, too, about the where abouts of the U.S. Navy and had flags ready to signal although "after the first year I began to lose hope...
...important a news commentator-a man qualified to let everyone know that Germany would never attack Russia and that there was nothing to fear from Japan-that Ma and Pa could overlook his divorce. Briggsy took over everything that might disturb the great mind: his checkbook, his correspondence, the task of feeding his stomach ulcers their diet of hot milk every two hours...