Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever-efficient Secret Service, far from having overrun its budget as Government departments are inclined to do, reported a tidy little surplus of $7,035. In so far as any British public man has to carry off the honors of being called ''head of John Bull's Secret Service" by such careful newsorgans as Manhattan's Herald Tribune, this duty is discharged by Sir Robert Gilbert Van-ittart, brilliant permanent Undersecretary of the British Foreign Office.* Last week Sir Robert's brother-in-law, vigorous British Ambassador to Germany Sir Eric Phipps, was appointed Ambassador...
...John Bull's Secret Service," said the Herald Tribune last November, "is catching and jailing at a record rate spies with German contracts, and worrying the Nazi war staff and diplomatic chieftains by an uncanny knowledge of things which the Nazis thought were impenetrable secrets. . . . Vansittart is the only man living who knows all the Number Ones of the British Secret Service. Even the Prime Minister is denied that knowledge. But one other man is let in on the money side. He is Sir Warren Fisher, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and Head of the Civil Service...
...Philadelphia (824,250 Catholics), Metropolitan of the Province of Philadelphia (2,080,788 souls in six Sees), Titular Priest of Rome's Church of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo, member of the Congregations of the Sacraments, of Sacred Rites, for the Oriental Church, for the Propagation of Faith. Upon bull-framed, square-jawed Cardinal Dougherty, as vigorous a man physically as the Holy Father now was frail, Pius XI had chosen to bestow a high honor, sending him as Legate a latere-spiritually and literally "from the Pope's side"-to the Congress in Manila. Emerging from the Vatican...
...Norwegian visa, flying on to Oslo; conferring with Trotsky, and getting back to Russia without exciting the Ogpu's suspicion. This may seem possible if the thoroughness of Soviet, German and Norwegian secret police methods is not known, but in Moscow it was such an obvious cock-&-bull story that Prosecutor Vishinsky endeavored to draw out Piatakov into further and believable details, asking: "How was all this arranged?" Piatakov, voluble in his confession up to this point, gave the Prosecutor a reproachful glance, and lapsed into silence with a gesture of helplessness. Few minutes later, Prosecutor Vishinsky brought...
...shrewd speculator can acquire valuable privileges by buying a seat on the Stock Exchange. Its copyright title is derived from a card game called Make a Million, in which the pack contains bull and bear cards. Jury Box is an effort to combine in practical form the sadistic appeal of crime stories with the masochistic fascination of the puzzle. It is a box of six envelopes, each of which contains a description of, and all the material necessary for, the solution of a serious crime. The host acts as district attorney, passes out evidence to his guests, who form...