Word: checking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frederick Brown, etc." Frederick Brown is not a native of Russia. He and the undersigned were reared in Karlsbad, the world famous spa in Bohemia now named or rather misnamed Czechoslovakia. Karlsbad has been German for 500 years, despite the fact that the authorities want to force the Check name Karlory-Vary onto the world...
...automobiles named after him (Reo?his initials?and Oldsmobile); Walter P. Chrysler, railroad shop superintendent who borrowed $4,300, bought an automobile and spent a winter taking it apart and putting it together again to see what made it go; John Willys, high pressure salesman, who cashed a personal check for $330 at a hotel to meet the pay roll of the Overland Co. so he would not lose his sales agency, and who almost at once became simultaneously president, treasurer, general manager, sales manager, and advertising manager of the nearly bankrupt company...
...came complacently to watch. Birthday greetings were pronounced by the Duke of Connaught, who was, Scouts had been told, uncle to King George V. English Scouts soon forgot their recent jibes of "millionaires" when Mortimer L. Schiff (Kuhn Loeb & Co.), U. S. Scout vice president, presented a $50,000 check to them, "for the advancement of the British Scout movement...
...recrudescence of the argument about the two countries' Prohibition responsibilities. At Ottawa William D. Euler, Canada's Minister of National Revenue whose blunt speaking on the same subject has riled U. S. officials before (TIME, June 3), lectured the Washington government on ways and means of checking rum-smuggling. Treasury officials in Washington snorted indignantly. Two facts are basic in this international dispute: 1) Canada grants clearance of liquor cargoes for the U. S. on excise payments; 2) the U. S. requires, under its navigation laws, no clearance for pleasure craft under five tons-the category into which...
...effective check on their own boats and their own people engaged in the violation of their own law. If they would follow the Canadian practice [of clearances] they would have a means of control which would in a large measure provide the remedy for the conditions of which they complain." Assistant Secretary Lowman in Washington failed to see it that way. Said he: "It makes no difference what [clearance] regulations you have, because bootleggers will not register their vessels in any event. They are just as willing to ignore the navigation laws as they are the prohibition and customs laws...