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...room which specializes in high powered cared games, a $400 IOU--paid--holds an honored place on the mantel...
Practicing for Weyler Sir: Your report on General Weyler's sickness (TIME April 14) was, of course, excellent, iou missed', however, one thing which it seems to me could be sufficient to throw the choleric old (92 not 91, years old) general into a fit ot rage that might carry him to -his grave, although that "double pneumonia, with some complications" could do him nothing to pay attention to. When Primo de Rivera's body was carried to Spain, just a few days after Weyler found him self sound and hale again, the people of old Madrid...
Rothstein was the big loser. At the end of the sitting he had to give his IOU for $349,000. He gave another IOU for $49,000 in cash lying on the table, which he shoved into his pocket. "See you later," he told them, and went...
Most of the Rothstein enterprises were deep in debt. His election bets were calculated to pull him out of a bad hole. Necessarily, he was slow about taking up his IOU's. The trouble was, he had been slow that way before. His tongue could be as sharp in debt as it could be smooth in velvet. The creditors grew restive. They persuaded George McManus, whom Rothstein trusted, to call him over for a "creditors' meeting" one evening last month. Rothstein got the call in the little restaurant and started over to the Park Central Hotel where McManus...
...certainly established. I feel positively aged in the wood at the honor. Sometime I shall parody the Lampoon and then we'll all be happy, won't we, children, to use the words of Minnie Mistletoe who broadcasts the Nightly. Nothing for Nice Tots from KTX or is it IOU...