Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...California, gregarious Jimmy Moffett knew the oil business inside & out. As onetime Federal Housing Administrator and an old friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt, he also knew politics and politicos. He soon fixed things so that Ibn Saud was taken care of. But Jimmy Moffett complained that nobody ever took care of him for being such an influential person. Six years later he sued Aramco for $6,000,000 for services rendered...
...vice president, but had later demanded $100,000 (and got $25,000) for "out-of-pocket" expenses while away. He wrote Standard: "I was really doing more work ... for the Standard Oil Co. than if I had remained in the office at 30 Rockefeller Plaza." In another letter, he took credit for the quashing of antitrust indictments in 1934 against Standard of California. Excerpt: "The Attorney General . . . took me into an outer room and said: 'Jimmy, I have dismissed the indictments against your boy friends on the Pacific Coast...
Ceresol and his assistant planned to spend a week studying "the new dignity of modern gambling"-and Nevada's odds. With a movie camera and a tape recorder, they took down the patter and actions around dice tables, hoped to use it to teach Monte Carlo's croupiers to talk and act like those in Nevada. Ceresol had his doubts that fast and reckless craps would ever appeal to the dignified European gambler. For that matter, Monte Carlo's rules would not be too appealing to Americans. Said Ceresol: "We will take back your game...
Edgar also took steps to stop the $30-3-ton premium on steel which K-F has been paying. He made a deal to finance the building of a new open-hearth furnace for Republic Steel, buy all the output for five years at market prices. Under the agreement, Republic would continue to sublet the blast furnace at Cleveland which K-F had leased from the Government (TIME, Sept. 6), thus ending a squabble between the two companies and the War Assets Administration...
...work of substitute Walt McCurdy that kept Harvard in the contest until the final seconds. McCurdy, who took scoring honors for both teams with 19 points, tied the game up, 48 to 48, in the last half minute...