Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking informally before a small student group in Winthrop House last night, Lawrence Winship, editor of the Boston Globe expressed indifference to the Nieman Fellowship plan. Crack reporters who have the curiosity requisite for good journalistic writing, he said, would find it impractical to take time out for study at the University...
Published last autumn by Bobbs-Merrill Co. was a $2.50 volume called Labor Spy, purporting to be the autobiography of a crack operative who spent 20 years at his trade. Apparently he found it healthy to retire to a Canadian farm to write under his old detective agency designation GT-99. The book was a hair-raising success story of how a good machinist broke into the spy business writing daily reports on his fellow workmen, advanced to union-busting, then settled down in a midwest industrial centre to bore into the local labor movement in behalf of the manufacturers...
...Europe on the Europa, after a fortnight in the U. S. so modestly spent that none but intimates knew she was in the country, sailed Titian-haired Stephanie Julienne Richter Princess Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg-Schillingsfürst, Hungarian beauty, talented musician, crack shot, friend of half of Europe's great. Along with Italy's Queen Elena, she bears the distinction of having been personally decorated by Adolf Hitler...
Slowly making her way through dark, unfamiliar waters last fortnight, the Dollar Line's crack 21,936-ton President Hoover ran hard aground on a reef 18 miles off Formosa's east coast, 450 miles north of Manila. There was a heavy swell on, and by daylight the 615-ft. vessel was fast on the rocks for more than half her length. A few hundred yards away the 503 passengers and 330 members of the crew could see tiny Hoishoto Island, and within a mile or two a handful of other Japanese islands-all small, bleak, sparsely inhabited...
...Lawyer Jackson's department investigated the operations of the four big auto-financing companies owned by or connected with automobile manufacturers. Last September it began presenting its evidence to a special Federal grand jury in Milwaukee. Last week, just when it seemed certain that the grand jury would crack down on the companies, the Government's efforts came a cropper...