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General Winfield Scott died poor. General U.S. Grant lost his modest stake in a deal with a crooked partner, pledged sabers and other mementos to raise cash and was only able to recoup by writing his memoirs...
Though Carter men were coy, oil-wise Oklahomans were sure that the Cottingham was a "commercial" well, i.e., could produce enough oil to recoup lifting costs and then some, though not necessarily enough to pay off the $200,000-plus drilling costs. And Oklahoma's Ickes-feuding Senator Edward H. Moore, home to help out fellow Republicans in this week's Congressional election, was quick to say the Cottingham showed what "American free enterprise" could do, without any newfangled Government pipelines in far-off Arabia...
...Germans, busy in the Balkans and Italy, seemingly paid little attention. But after weeks of reconnaissance and preparation, they started to recoup their losses. Last month, some 4,000 German seaborne troops recaptured Cos in the Dodecanese from a tiny garrison of British troops and R.A.F. ground personnel...
Schweitzer's chances seemed dark. Local observers thought that Terry wanted a way to recoup political prestige lost when Governor Spessard Holland ousted from the School Board Terry's henchman Russell F. Hands, who had been found drunk and naked in a Miami hotel with a woman in a like state. Terry dominates the School board...
...loser in Hi Diddle Diddle is birdbrained Mrs. Prescott (Billie Burke) who claims she has disposed of the family fortune just as her daughter Janie (Martha Scott) is about to marry a sailor, Sonny Phyffe (Dennis O'Keefe). Father Phyffe (Adolphe Menjou) is the raffish Samaritan deputed to recoup Mrs. Prescott's family fortune by breaking the bank at a gambling casino...