Word: biddinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At the State's Attorney's office contractors told their stories of jobs they never got. The standard "fee" was $500 for a contract in 30 days. One man had been promised good jobs in Wisconsin, Illinois or Indiana. When he failed to get them, he said he...
Reports that the U. S. Treasury paid 1,250,000 francs ($50,000) to a "Paris clerk" for information he got by "violating the premises" of famed Dressmaker Paul Poiret stirred Paris editors last week to apoplectic fury. Mad as two stitches, Dressmaker Poiret showed reporters a letter he had...
For ten years the Federal Government has been trying to make up its disjointed official mind what to do with the $150,000,000 power and nitrate plant it built during the War at Muscle Shoals, Ala. on the Tennessee River. Once Henry Ford wanted to take it off the...
Troyka. When news of the Revolution reaches the bleak prison island of Sakhalin, the Russian commandant shoots himself in the head and the Siberian exiles are free to try to recapture their former lives, to wander back to wives and children. This situation is complicated for Semion and Ivan, fast...
Work Done. Last week the U. S. House of Representatives: ¶ Passed (180 to 27) a bill permitting the Postmaster General to award mail contracts to purchasers of U. S. shipping board lines without advertising or competitive bidding.