Word: tuckers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Larry Hatch of Washington, Harry Gilmer of Alabama, and Army's Arnold Tucker, all with interceptions, paced the Varsity halfback in total snatches...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov, with Ezio Pinza, Risë Stevens, Richard Tucker...
Ingredient No. 2. The pot was really brought to a sizzling boil by Preston Tucker, a small-time promoter with big ideas of making autos in the Chicago plant. He had agreed in September to lease it from the War Assets Administration. But NHA had ordered the plant to go to Lustron. In a frantic effort to block this, Tucker came up with a dark tale. His story: a lawyer approached him, just before the National Housing Administration ordered the plant turned over to Lustron, and promised to block the deal if Tucker 1) gave him $400,000 in stock...
...high dudgeon, Wyatt denied that NHA was involved in any such skullduggery. True, there had been a phone call to NHA from "a lawyer" who represented himself as acting for Tucker. The lawyer had asked NHA to hold up the Lustron deal. But the delay was routine. When the lawyer had called back and said "the deal was off," the plant had been ordered turned over to Lustron...
...called Tucker's shakedown story an "unvarnished lie." He had been hired by Tucker, said he, back in July to help raise cash for Tucker's auto project. Tucker's charges of a shakedown now, said he, were merely an attempt to get out of paying him. He threatened to "sue Tucker for the fees and for libel." (Said Tucker: "Poppycock...