Word: cagey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reported (from Scandinavian sources) the arrival of the Italian planes in Finland, but stated that they had even landed to refuel in their flight across Germany. Furthermore, said Tass, it had heard that Germany herself was forwarding planes, munitions and even gasoline to Finland. To this Germany issued a cagey denial...
Germany with [raw] materials for which Germany will compensate her by industrial supplies [finished products] over a long time." But. each side being as cagey as it is, there was a long way between promise and delivery...
Died. George Jean ("Big Frenchy") De Mange, 47, cagey onetime hoodlum, highjacker and bootlegger, latterly a millionaire Broadway restaurateur (The Club Argonaut, Park Avenue. Silver Slipper); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As a Hudson Duster, Big Frenchy early opposed British-born Owen ("Owney") Madden's Gophers, later joined Owney in the liquor racket. In 1931 Owney scraped up $35,000 to ransom Big Frenchy when itchy-fingered Vincent Coll kidnapped him and threatened his life. Last week Owney was chief mourner at Big Frenchy's funeral, complete with six cars dripping with flowers...
...three months, the Fair had made nothing from operations and was practically ready for receivership. Early in May the two most interested members of its board of management virtually became its receivers: cagey Standard Oil of California Director Philip Halsey Patchin and solid Pacific Gas & Electric President James Byers Black. They fired Director Connick (annual salary: $17,500) and hired*(at no salary) a new director, smart, baldish Dr. Charles Henry Strub, onetime ball player and chain dentist, present-day Santa Anita race-track operator...
...Handsome, silver-haired Publisher Carl Jones (an amateur card-trick expert) shuffled his journalistic cards to no avail. To the Star went his acrid Managing Editor George H. Adams (later to return to his old job on the Journal, see it fold). To the rival Tribune went his cagey business manager, George Bickelhaupt...