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...President Christy Payne of Standard Oil. When he arrived the raid had already begun. Vice President Payne refused to see him until after the market closed. When Mr. Parish walked into his office, Mr. Payne said: "How do you like it?" Missouri-Kansas stock had plummeted 15 points. To recoup his losses Pipeman Parish had to sell a half-interest in a Missouri-Kansas subsidiary. Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line, to a subsidiary of Columbia Gas & Electric...
...cash behind them. The pair spent their honeymoon in a Lake Ontario log cabin. Lord Edward returned to serve gallantly through the War with the Irish Guards, go bankrupt in 1918 owing ?300,000. Already separated from his chorus girl Duchess, he succeeded to the Dukedom in 1922. To recoup his fortunes the Duke of Leinster sold stock in himself as "The Dukedom of Leinster Estates, Inc." The Duchess fell in love with a 26-year-old cook named Stanley Williams...
...eyed, Hitler-lipped Kimon Gueorguieff whose favorite cry was "Our government is neither Right nor Left, but STRAIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE" (TIME, June 4). First reports were that this Gueorguieff dictatorship had the full approval of Little Tsar Boris. But royalists in Austria and Hungary, trying hard to recoup their own fortunes through the restoration of downy-lipped Archduke Otto, learned almost immediately that Boris was practically a prisoner of the dictatorship, that the real dictator was not Through-the-Middle-Man Gueorguieff but a sly Col. Damyam Veltcheff. Col. Veltcheff's plan was to force Tsar Boris...
...permanent or transitory. Yet no thinking citizen can feel at heart otherwise than sympathetic to the demands of workers, coming, as they do, when prices are rising rapidly, and employers are anxious to keep down costs, of which wages are one of the largest items, in order to recoup themselves for the loses they have suffered during the last few years...
...Sheriff Cooksey indignantly replied that just before the raid a conservation crew had taken their boat across the river, had refused to return and do their duty. Commissioner Earle immediately mobilized a fleet of launches, equipped one with a machine gun and a one-pound cannon and prepared to recoup lost glory by catching the next pack of poachers...