Word: stacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week "King George" once more loomed on the Nevada scene with a big stack of blue chips. He let it be known that he had regained control of Hotels Riverside and Golden and stood to make considerable on a new mine. When his personal crash came, "King George'' had found others as glad to grubstake him as he had always been to grubstake the down-&-out. State Senator Noble Getchell gave him a half interest in a low-grade surface mine near Winnemucca where they are now building a gold mill due to begin operations about...
...file. In the German Army the whole lot of them would have been either court-martialed or stood before a firing squad. But, notes Private Bemelmans gratefully, "they let me speak German, tell me that Germany is beautiful, and don't say a word that I have a stack of German books and many German ideas." One of his German expressions, in fact, became a fixture of camp life. Private Bemelmans called his Oswego girl friend "Summer Sprouts," because that is the German phrase for freckles, of which she had a great many. She never outlived the nickname because...
...State police had closed and confiscated 18 Catholic printing plants, "a dolorous echo of the Holy Father's encyclical" (TIME, March 29). Among the victims were reported such famed firms as Regensberg of Munich, Bachem of Cologne. The Pope was reported to have finished his "White Book," a stack of evidence to show that Hitler, not the Vatican, has violated the Vatican-Nazi Concordat. It looked as though the Church was campaigning in as big a way as the Third Reich...
Best-publicized firm of counselors is the ilbert & Sullivan Organization with offices in Philadelphia and Manhattan. Gilbert & Sullivan have produced no Pirates of Penzance but they have penned a number of pamphlet contributions to the growing stack of insurance criticism. David Gilbert is an oldtime insurance counselor who joined forces with James P. Sullivan last November. Mr. Sullivan was an actuary who had been examiner for Congressman Sabath's ubiquitous investigating committee. In general Gilbert & Sullivan believe that it is smarter to buy cheap renewable term insurance, which has little or no cash value and permits the policyholder...
...been robbing the Treasury for years. When a package of currency contained fewer bills than the number marked on the attached teller's slip, the four old checkers invariably noted the lack. But when a packet contained an extra bill or two they pocketed the difference, marked the stack O.K. So rare and trifling were the tellers' mistakes from which they profited that it was a long time before their superiors grew suspicious. Then the Secret Service planted packages of marked bills, caught the four redhanded. They were promptly discharged in teary disgrace but. because of their long...