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...company last year, had promised the flyers $10,000. "Mr. Fokker's promise aroused considerable controversy among our officers. We did not feel that he had any authority to make the promise and we didn't think we got value received in publicity, but rather than incur his ill will we paid the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: L. A. to Pasture | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...justice into their own hands. The same disregard for law has continued unabated. And now the only means left to demonstrate the power of that law,--the strict imposition of sentence,--has been cast aside because a governor was too weak to face the angry censure which impartiality would incur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUSTICE IN HAWAII | 5/6/1932 | See Source »

Despite the belief that a win is far from improbable, Yale is nothing like overconfident. Her best hopes lie in the renewal of team play and the work of goalers Beard and Curtiss. Special care will be taken to incur fewer penalties which have left the New Haven defenses vulnerable in several of the last games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Neither Crimson Nor Blue Are Over-confident On Day Of Initial Hockey Contest | 2/27/1932 | See Source »

...14th Street between Third Avenue and Irving Place. He further declared that he considered N. G. L. comparatively lucky, that he had feared "a further squeeze" of $250,000. He added that North German Lloyd berthed her ships all over the world but "never has to hire lawyers or incur special expenses [i. e. graft] for pier leases in any city but New York." On the stand, Ex-Convict Maier, who got accommodations for Mayor Walker on the Bremen last summer and accompanied him to Europe (TIME, Sept. 7), testified that he had requested the pier lease as his reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pierage | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

...President's contribution: $616.44. Meanwhile protests began to appear against the method of relief fund collection among the Government's 75,000 departmental workers. Collectors had the payrolls and each employe was supposed to subscribe three days' wages. If he did not, he feared he would incur official dis favor, perhaps lose his job. Senator Couzens of Michigan threatened an investigation to see if Federal workers were being "dragooned and intimidated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Red Scare | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

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