Word: coverly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another who had been sleepless was a corpulent, 59-year-old police reporter named John H. Dreher of the Seattle Times, one of a flock of 75 newshawks which alighted at Tacoma to cover the Northwest's biggest snatch. Oldster Dreher justified his 40 years in the business with an oldtime scoop. Somehow he got word of Farmer Bonifas' early morning call to the Tacoma police. "On one of those hunches that come like a royal flush," wrote Reporter Dreher afterward, "I started out in a taxicab to meet the farmer's automobile." Meet...
...front cover...
...Nazi prosecutor this was treason and worse. "You started your letter: 'Let God's grace be with us,' " cried he. "How did you dare commit such blasphemies to cover up common smuggling? I have not seen anything to equal it even in cases of Jewish and Galician grafters...
...remained for Bethlehem's Eugene Grace, who also heads the Steel Institute, to cover the whole field of steel antagonism toward the New Deal. He lashed out at the Banking Bill, the Public Utility Bill, the Social Security Bill, the Guffey Coal Bill, the 30-hour-week Bill. "It is about time we had a little old-fashioned economy, that we encouraged efficiency and thrift," cried the steelmaster who received a $1,600,000 bonus...
...find no schedule of the company's $39,000,000 marketable securities. Salaries were submitted confidentially with the remark that none was more than $100,000 per year. Financial statements, almost as sketchy as ever, were footnoted: "Omitted data is being submitted to chairman of commission under confidential cover." Largest stockholdings of any official were 1,984 shares owned by Director Harold Otis. One director owned one share, two directors none. Orlando Weber's holdings were apparently less than 10% (221,000 shares), for they were not mentioned...