Word: croupiers
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...supreme croupier is a state such as Mexico, which has just calmly raked in by expropriation $400,000,000 worth of oil properties owned by U. S. and British citizens (TIME, March 28). The game of oil must now be resumed in Mexico and, with such mulcted players as Standard Oil and Britain's Shell in a huff last week, there was a grand chance for Rickett & Smith to grab front seats at the Big Table before the wheel began to spin again. There ought to be bargains in Mexican oil today...
...farmer named Ballard, who had five sons. One of them, Edward, early showed enterprise. He used to deliver the laundry which his mother did for people who were taking the cure at neighboring French Lick. Soon he was graduated into a saloon in adjoining West Baden, next became a croupier in a gambling room run by a Negro in the West Baden Springs Hotel. In his mid-twenties he bought the gambling club for himself. After a decade or so more, he bought Brown's Hotel in French Lick and converted it into a gambling casino, known thereafter simply...
Last week the great wheel of war and the little white ball of sanctions had only begun to whirl in opposite directions. The diplomatic croupiers of Europe's green tables were fingering below the cloth and there were plenty of buttons, pressure on which could make the wheel and ball "behave." To Paris from London again crossed last week minor Croupier Maurice Peterson, chief of the Ethiopian section of the British Foreign Office, to dicker further with his French colleague, minor Croupier Count Rene de Saint-Quentin. They have been in substantial agreement for weeks on a formula...
...days, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, directed by Howard Hawks, acted by Edward G. Robinson, Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea. That it somehow fails to justify expectations is due largely to the fact that the story, about an underworld tsar who constitutes himself protector of a lady croupier in his gambling house and then shows that his heart is in the right place by giving her up when she falls in love with a mealy-mouthed young prospector. is a painfully uninspired bit of hackwork. That the picture, nonetheless, manages to be an intermittently lively and entertaining period...
...From the Croupier's Chair...