Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the laws of Massachusetts and of the Roman Catholic Church, the fact that a child is being used as a pawn is shocking. Being a real parent involves far more than bringing a child into the world. To uproot little Hildy McCoy [TIME, July 18] from the only security and love she knows and transplant her is like putting a family pet into the city dog pound...
...modest stakes into four-and five-figure bankrolls. One of the brokerage offices' steadiest customers, Joe Hagger, sold his restaurant in order to play the market full time, recently built a new $30,000 house, and now plans to open a new business - Blind River's first pawn shop. "I know it will be lucrative," says...
...went to Fort Worth for the first time, rented a typewriter for 50? a month, and had business cards printed that said: "The Texas Advertising and Manufacturing Co." But his most impressive piece of business equipment was a $2,000 diamond ring, which was easy to pawn to finance new ventures. Two budding newspaper publishers, D. C. McCaleb and A. G. Dawson, who were starting the Fort Worth Star in the city, hired Carter as their ad manager. He soon bought out the partners and borrowed enough money to buy out the Star's opposition, the Telegram...
...Bavarian solicitude, Peoria could not stay the course. Last week, with Kronach ahead 23-18, Peoria's W. E. McCraw, last American left in the match, was faced with a passed pawn and a hopelessly cramped position. Reluctantly, he resigned. This month, as a token of friendship, Kronach's citizens will present a porcelain trophy of two chess players to the officer in charge of U.S. forces stationed there...
Duane specialized in thefts of jewelry and money. After he had burglarized a room, he would take a plane or train to New York and dispense of whatever jewelry he had taken, in one of three pawn shops that he patronized...