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Sixteen other readers could count on their fingers better than TIME'S careless checker...
TIME'S Foreign News Editor was well aware that Sir Percival Phillips' paper was no longer the Daily Mail. But to a TIME Foreign News fact-checker, no discredit for associating Sir Percival with the Daily Mail, which he left more than a year ago, since he has neglected to note his new job in the best standard British references...
...Filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission was a curious syndicate agreement between Cord Corp. and President Morris Markin of Checker Cab, which Cord controls. This control (64,000 shares of Checker stock) is held by the syndicate, which is a polite word for pool. President Markin's interest in the pool is 6,500 shares. Last August the pool agreement, which has elaborate provisions to keep the two members from chiseling each other, was extended for five years and broadened to allow trading in securities of other taxi or allied companies, including Chicago Yellow Cab and Parmelee Transportation...
...Senate, Texas' Tom Connally, who heard President Wilson's War message as a fledgling Representative, reared up and roared: "Some checker-playing, beer-drinking back room of some low house is the only place fit for the kind of language which the Senator from North Dakota puts into the record about a dead man, a great man, a good man. and a man who, when alive, had the courage to meet his enemies face to face. . . . This committee . . . comes back like a ghoul, a historical ghoul, to desecrate the sacred resting place of the honored dead...
...manufacturers like Rabkin, and Chicago's D. Gottlieb & Co., Bally Manufacturing Co., Genco, Inc., and Rockola Manufacturing Co., are never at a loss for new ideas. Last week Mr. Rabkin's staff of artists and engineers were busy on a pin game checker board in red, gold and black with bulbous gold clouds from which issue silver thunderbolts. Before it is released this week or next the final drawings will be submitted to a commercial artist for advice. The firm's own designers, says Mr. Rabkin, get so wrought up over each new creation that they...