Word: checkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pope did bless Francisco Franco, but in these words: "We send from our hearts the apostolic blessing, propitiator of divine favors." At TIME'S Foreign News editor and checker, raised eyebrows for misapplying the Pope's words about St. Salvador da Horta to Generalissimo Franco; to TIME'S Roman Catholic readers, an apology...
...spring fever but sheer stupidity beset TIME'S checker. To Playwright and Novelist Christa Winsloe, deep apologies for inexcusably confusing her with another onetime Baroness Hatvany. To Journalist Thompson, all thanks for setting the record straight...
...moving the Ping-Pong tables to the basement, where players have asserted they are willing to carry on, what is now a game room could easily be turned into a reading room. At present non-residents can study only in the common room, where piano playing, chess and checker games, and conversations are liable to interrupt the quiet at any moment. Books can be acquired with almost as little trouble and expense as a room. Out of the vastness of Widener Library a few books can well be spared to start the collection at Dudley Hall. The commuters themselves will...
Last summer SEC jumped on E. L. Cord for certain deals in Checker Cab and other stocks. As a result, while denying the charges, he consented to an injunction forbidding any further manipulation of Checker Cab, Auburn, or stock of any other company in which Cord Corp. had financial interest. Simultaneously, without any explanation, E. L. Cord abdicated from Cord Corp. entirely (TIME, Aug. 16). Since then he has dabbled in Los Angeles real estate while financial circles have dabbled in all sorts of rumors explaining his abdication. Last week, when SEC suddenly pulled the case out of its files...
Last week in Chicago E. L. Cord, just turned 43, consented to a Federal court order enjoining him and Checker Cab Mfg. Corp.'s President Morris Markin from the "further violation" of SEC anti-manipulation provisions in their dealings in Cord company securities (an SEC charge which both men, however, denied) and simultaneously announced the sale of his entire holdings in Cord Corp. to a Manhattan banking group...