Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan court last week Gambler Alvin Paris was on trial for attempting to fix a professional football game (he was later convicted). First prospective juror was William H. Haskell, a customers' broker for E. F. Hutton & Co. Haskell claimed he could not be impartial in a gambler's trial because: "I'm in the gambling business myself...
...Heroes. As in every melee, few heroes stood out. G.E.'s Charles E. Wilson cried-and tried-to hold prices, but was swept upwards with the rest. Young Henry Ford II's determined effort to fix union responsibility fell short. Henry J. Kaiser might have turned out to be the hero of the year if he had turned out cars the way he had turned out his ships. But his car-making stuttered along like an 1896 horseless carriage. For great performance, U.S. business had no Man of the Year...
...area of foreign relations, the Republican majority will fix an immediate and searching eye on foreign borrowing. That problem they consider as urgent as the "must" domestic legislation. The world will watch closely. In the Republican philosophy, unlimited money cannot be laid out for foreign loans without creating inflationary debt in the U.S. Inflation in the U.S. would mean certain economic disaster for the world. The Republican hand will not be as wide open as the hand of the last Democratic Congresses...
...football, the attempted bribery of two of the Giants' players (TIME, Dec. 23) was a different matter. The newspapers played it as the worst scandal since the "Black" Sox threw the 1919 World Series. Alvin Paris, the tinhorn gambler who tried to fix last fortnight's pro football championship game, was still in jail. Who was behind him? The papers hinted darkly of a big-time Jersey gambling ring, which was not above fixing prize fights and college basketball games...
...Soviet Russia, Austria's spanking new diplomatic mission to Moscow, consisting of slim, distinguished Minister Karl Waldbrunner, Counselor Karl Braunias and a female secretary, has been in even worse case, homeless and flat broke. Reason: the Russians would not fix a legal rate for converting their schillings into rubles. The diplomats had to wash their own socks and underwear. Never sure where their next meal was coming from, they scurried from one hotel to another as bills came due. On top of it all the secretary turned out to have been pregnant when she left Vienna; after she went...