Word: breach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury Mills, No. 1 Hoover stumpster. procured an advance press copy of the Glass speech, engaged radio time immediately following to make a partisan retort. Hearing of this Senator Glass concluded his speech by declaring that Secretary Mills had obtained his copy "by some means which involves a breach of confidence disdained by every honorable newspaper man," and adding...
...hesitated over the Herriot plan last week, keeping officially mum. Unofficially the German Government pointed out through its press spokesman that M. Herriot in proposing to turn the Reichwehr into a conscript army was proposing to break the Treaty of Versailles which forced upon Germany a volunteer army. Any breach in the Treaty, especially by a Frenchman, was so much to the good, the German spokesman declared, but of course the Fatherland would insist on "arms equality" (which M. Herriot had denounced as "re-armament...
...workers battled with bottles. In London a smart Bobby dodged a bottle-blow, let it knock out Out-of-Worker James Cunningham. Into the breach as James Cunningham went down stepped Rev. J. C. Putterill, prominent social reformer. "Come on men!" he roared and led 3,000 jobless on a window-smashing spree through the London district of Stratford...
...pitfall into which the candidate tumbled was admitting that he voted for Herbert Hoover in 1928. Son of the late sportsman Harry Payne Whitney, grandson of Cleveland's Secretary of the Navy, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney is 33. He pulled bow oar on Yale's varsity crew, was sued for breach of promise by a dancer after graduation. Fie inherited over one-quarter of his father's $77,000,000 estate. He chairmans the boards of Pan American Airways and Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. He has two children by his first wife, Marie Norton, whose No. 2 husband is Poloist...
President Wilson), Bankster Caldwell gained favorable political ears. Because $6.400,000 of State funds were tied up in Caldwell banks when they closed, an angry legislature talked of impeaching Governor Horton. Bankster Caldwell was convicted of fraudulent breach of trust in substituting collateral securities of less than specified value. Higher courts reversed the conviction, however, and Bankster Caldwell has spent not one day in jail. Following this reversal, indictments were quashed. Bankster Caldwell considered himself vindicated...