Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly, plainclothesmen burst through the front door and windows, crying "Nobody move!" They swept up cards, chips and cash as evidence, herded together 20 prisoners, including a Mexican general, a wealthy Texan and several of the brightest lights of capital society. When the courts opened next day, the 20 were charged with gambling and released on bail (possible sentence: three months to a year in jail...
Shirley May was looking for glory, perhaps even a Hollywood contract, but last week she was seasick. On the Dutch luxury liner Nieuw Amsterdam, eastbound, a steward with a tempting tray knocked at her stateroom door. "Come back later, much later," moaned Shirley May. "How I wish I could get off this ship and swim the rest...
...congressional temper flared. For Hagerty, as the RFC's Boston manager, had recommended the $9,000,000 loan (later cut to $6,000,000) that enabled Waltham to reorganize. A Senate committee began digging into the RFC's records, found that the RFC had been an open door to high-salaried jobs in other companies which it had bailed out. In 4½-years, 20 RFC employees had joined companies that were in debt to the RFC. Like Hagerty, many of them had recommended loans for their future employers. Examples of other shifts...
Last week, the Senate Banking & Currency Committee decided it was time to lock the RFC's job-placement door. It approved a bill that would bar RFC officials who have lending discretion from accepting jobs with RFC borrowers for two years after loans are made. Speedy congressional passage was likely...
...Question of Sincerity. Lena Tobiansky sent her son to a children's camp, after changing their name to Bentov (son of goodness); but his identity leaked out and the other children called his father a traitor. Lena herself removed the shiny brass nameplate from her apartment door and moved to another part of the city...