Word: mowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buyer of U.S. warplanes and supplies for Nationalist China, Lieut. General P. T. Mow (who likes to be called Pete) failed to account for $19 million in funds credited to his name in U.S. banks. Early this year, when his government sued in a Washington, D.C. federal court for an accounting and the return of any unspent money, Mow took a powder (TIME, March 10). His lawyer admitted that Mow had gone across the border to Mexico...
...palmy Cuernavaca, resort town about 35 miles south of Mexico City, Mow bought a big house and hired four servants. A fortnight ago he rode in his Cadillac to Cuernavaca's cobbled shopping section to buy a straw hat. As he stepped out of the car door, five men grabbed him, flicked out police badges, whisked him back to his house. There they also arrested a slim, trim, two-toned blonde named Agnes Kelly, 31, who became Mow's secretary after giving up nightclub appearances and modeling in New York. While Mow fumed, the gumshoes searched his house...
...know. General James A. Van Fleet guessed aloud that the Communists would not dare to try an offensive this spring. If they did, said he, his forces could stop them: "It would be a good thing if we could get those people out of their foxholes and dugouts, to mow them down the way we did last April and May." But actually, the U.N. command was not so bold. To break through the enemy successfully, they said, they would need at least another two divisions, and it would cost 25,000 fresh U.N. casualties, perhaps more...
About the Money. At that point (beginning in January) Mow and Hsiang began to act like men afraid to test their case before a judge. The court managed to get its hands on only $614,000 of the $7,000,000 or so which Mow presumably still controls. Mow quietly took a powder: on Jan. 23, then on Feb. 8, he failed to appear for deposition. He went to Mexico City instead. Hsiang also absented himself from Washington. Last week, to Attorney Roberts' embarrassment, came news from Hong Kong: Hsiang's family had gone from San Francisco...
This week, with the two officers still absent, the district court handed down a judgment by default against Mow...