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...scheme is not new; Graham-Paige Motors tried it in 1940. Because of elastic used-car allowances, rebates, finance charges, etc., dealers have always helped set retail prices in fact. But now Chrysler dealers will get the whole job. Thus they will have a chance to recoup possible losses from having fewer cars to sell, and they will bear the onus of blame for higher prices...
When Warren Delano lost his fortune in the panic of 1857, he left his home near Newburgh, N.Y., went back to China to recoup his wealth. Five years later he sent for his family. Sara was then a little girl. She went out to China on the clipper Surprise. They lived a year in crowded Hong Kong, traveled home by leisurely stages through Europe. In Berlin she spent one winter, studying at a private school. In Paris she spent another. Back in Newburgh, Sara Delano became a belle of the Hudson River Valley...
Every team but Yale will see action Saturday. The Princeton outfit which got off to a slow start, losing to Yale at New Haven in its first league game, has an opportunity to recoup that loss by tackling probably the most formidable task in the league at the current moment--that of defeating Dartmouth on the Hanover court...
When Kipling was singing the glories of Empire in India, Neville Chamberlain was painstakingly trying to raise sisal on the thin soil of Andros Island in the Bahamas, to recoup his family's fortunes. When his father, Old Joe Chamberlain, as Colonial Secretary, was working to bring the Boers to terms, Neville was learning the hardware business in Birmingham and interesting himself in health work. The age of Victoria molded him into a typical Englishman of his time-not a Kipling Englishman, but a Galsworthy Soames Forsyte. Neville Chamberlain's mind was once described as "the type which...
...socialite sense, the foulest deed Dick Whitney ever did was to steal $105,184 in securities from the safe-deposit box of the swanky New York Yacht Club, of which he was treasurer. Last week his old club, anxious to recoup, filed suit for all he had embezzled, plus interest, against a less exclusive, more expensive club, the New York Stock Exchange. Ground for the suit, had the Exchange exposed its onetime president sooner, it might have prevented the yacht club theft...