Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibilities, once put his barnstorming cash into a Florida peat company. Most newsworthy of present peat mossers are Charles Silber, a Newark, N. J. attorney, and Giles Price Wetherill, a Philadelphia socialite.* Last week in Cherryneld. Maine, they declared their newly formed American Peat Co. ready to dig for the $16,000,000-per-year U. S. peat trade now monopolized by importers from Sweden and Germany...
Unlike Mexico, which expropriates private property, then pleads inability to pay, Costa Rica is obliged by its Constitution to pay first, then expropriate. Last week President Léon Cortés Castro approved a plan to dig up the necessary payment-a Government bond issue mortgaging the firm's $3,000,000 power plant. The sirens which acclaimed future Government control of a U. S. public utility were premature, however. Three million dollars would be a staggering amount for agricultural Costa Rica's 591,000 inhabitants to kick in for such a bond issue at home. Abroad...
...President. Defeated for re-election to the Ohio State Senate in 1932, up-&-coming Lawyer Taft was Ohio's Favorite Son for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1936, ran for the Senatorial nomination this year against Supreme Court Judge Arthur Day. Best issue Campaigner Day could dig up was that Campaigner Taft was trying to buy his way into politics with "the Taft millions."* Result: Taft...
...Turrou, 42, had been in the Bureau for nine years. Russian-born, an able linguist, he served in the Marines after the War and with Herbert Hoover's relief mission in Russia. In the Lindbergh Case, he helped dig up the ransom money in Hauptmann's garage, wangled samples of Hauptmann's handwriting to match with the ransom notes. When the dirigible Akron was abuilding, he grew a beard and became a laborer to detect sabotage. For his work on a white slave ring in Connecticut (40 convictions), he was advanced to the highest pay bracket...
...taxed him with his crimes. Earl said, "Ma, do you feel all right?" But two days later he confessed, too. The State Parole Board let Mrs. Smith out five days early, and she went to Seattle with State Police carrying shovels, to see if she could help them dig up a piece or two of James Bassett's body...