Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wherever it was, man found a way to go down under the water, to upturn the sod of quiet pastoral lands, to split open the face of majestic hills, and dig out coal...
Congress members who differed from Nazi eugenic tenets contented themselves with remaining mum observers last week while the German Press quoted Dr. Campbell by the yard. Abroad excited Jewish editors tried to dig up something against him, found nothing more remarkable than that his wife was named Helen Fahnestock. Socialite Dr. Campbell's boldest dicta: "The difference between the Jew and the Aryan is as unsurmountable as that between black and white. . . . Germany has set a pattern which other nations must follow...
...Senate investigation is usually even greater than it receives. In the committee room there is generally a regular system of note passing, as reporters send up questions to help the investigator. Frequently one or more newshawks provide most of the blood and sinew of an inquisition. They not only dig up original facts but stand at the committeeman's elbow helping him with suggestions during the cross examination. Behind Senator Black in the airmail investigation was loud, talkative Fulton Lewis Jr., a Hearstling who two years before had begun to ferret out airmail scandal. In the present investigation, the newshawk...
...penciled notes on his knickknack-littered desk, he announced to newshawks that he had been making a personal study of the tax returns of 58 people who in 1932 had incomes of $1,000,000 or more per year. These, he declared with a broad grin and an obvious dig at William Randolph Hearst, whose newspapers had taken to calling the tax bill a "soak the thrifty" measure, were 58 of "the thriftiest people in the U. S." By buying tax-exempt Federal, State and Municipal securities they had managed to avoid paying any taxes whatever on 37% of their...
...paper's bills. Into office went Mayor Fred A. Busse, good friend of the Chicago Tribune and of Samuel Insull, who wanted the competing Hinman light plant eliminated. When Mayor Busse started to put the Hinman plant out of business, Publisher Hinman assigned Walter Howey to dig up dirt on the Mayor. Two months of burglary, bribery, and tireless sleuthing by Digger Howey filled a black suitcase with material which was spread in the Inter-Ocean. Shortly thereafter Mayor Busse died suddenly...