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...promptly set to raiding the slates of Stassen delegates, pressured others to stay out of the primary, confidently talked of capturing all of Ohio's 53 votes for Taft. But Stassen supporters figured that he was sure to pick up at least ten, enough to put a big crimp in Bob Taft's prestige...
...raising money which had bobbed up, via newspaper advertisement, in several U.S. cities. All of the schemes involved U.S. bonds and the same "money-back-in-ten-years" guarantee, plus the prospects of profits on the loan. But SEC's action in Philadelphia would not necessarily put a crimp in them. Two other money-raisers in New York got around SEC by filing details of their schemes (registering) with the agency. So long as they told all the facts, SEC could do nothing to stop them...
Walt Disney, film-father of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, told how the Reds had first tried to put a crimp in World-Girdler* Mickey, the traveling salesman of the U.S. When the Disney studios went on strike in 1937, he said, Labor Leader Herbert Sorrell admitted that Communist money had financed the walkout...
...quotas were boosted a generous 20% above their average 1936-45 output. And they were promised subsidies if they were good enough to stay within their quotas. On the other hand, foreign producers in such countries as Peru got quota cuts. Though small, these cuts will put a painful crimp in their dwindling dollar balances. And Cuba, though it got an increased quota, was also saddled with a clause which, in effect, threatened revocation of her quota if she failed to settle any private claims that U.S. nationals had against...
Foller, the fireball flinger of the Cleveland Indians--Newhouser, the calculating lefty from the Detroit Tigers, and Chandler, the New York Yankees cagey veteran, were expected to cast a nine-inning crimp in what the averages show to be slightly superior hitters from the National League