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When he was quizzed during the Seabury investigations of 1931 he hauled out a wallet as big as a horse's nosebag and extracted his father-in-law's collar button and a wad of bank books which accounted for every aspect of his financial affairs...
Most astonishing for many Chinese present, however, was the sight of one of the judges, a lean-jawed colonel who chewed and chomped a wad of gum every day. "Perhaps," wrote one Chinese reporter, "this is typical of American judicial custom." After four days of testimony and gum-chewing, the court postponed its decision. The Chinese had not quite reached a decision either...
...darkness groped for the lost coin. She could not find it. The conductor could not find it either. Then a Polish soldier came over to help out with a match. But the match burned down before they found the coin. The soldier muttered, then fished a wad of German bills out of his pocket. He took a large, 20-mark note ($2), lit it, found the 50-pfennig piece, and with a smile handed it to the woman. The smoldering remains of his 20 marks he tossed out the door...
...landed gentry), who seldom took a chance with a peso- except over a gaming table. It handed power and wealth to half-educated generals and to adventurous businessmen not greatly different from the men who built the U.S. Whatever their sins, the new bosses were willing to bet the wad on Mexico- at least, the part they did not keep for themselves. They took such sleepy colonial cities as Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mexico City, and turned them into bustling places with smoking factories and modern buildings...
With a big wad burning a hole in his pocket, Paul F. Clark, president of Boston's John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., dropped in on Los Angeles. He wanted to invest his company's cash in a new housing project which house-hungry Los Angeles badly needed. But last week Clark decided against it; he saw clouds ahead for even Sunkist Angelenos. Said he: "We can't help solve your housing problem because of your real-estate inflation. An insurance company can't invest in blown-up values. Real estate is more inflated in California...