Word: digged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dig for Water
With a suite of Washington offices, a few assistants, and 40 detectives under William J. Flynn, he has undertaken to dig up "corruption stories" which today's unheroic newspaperman, he says, studiously neglects...
...appointed a Federal judge, and to pay $25,000 additional when the nomination was confirmed. He declared that no beneficiaries were named, except "the boys." ¶ A special agent of the Department of Justice testified that his investigations had been blocked when he started to dig too deeply into certain alleged War graft cases. ¶ Roxie Stinson, divorced wife of the late Jesse M. Smith, continued her miscellaneous testimony. Her most sensational remarks dealt with a "deal" in which five men made $33,000,000 in a few days. She did not care to reveal their names and the Committee...
...serious-minded people. To the trifler and the gossip it is merely a few hours' diversion, such as they can manufacture less cleverly and without so "big" names in their own drawing-rooms. To the truly serious-minded man it is a treasury in which he can dig for nuggets of personality and little keys that unlock great doors of understanding...
...Washington, D. C., the Department of Commerce (whose function it is to advertise foreign trade openings for American business men) received a request from Sweden for a monthly delivery of 15,000 to 20,000 bunches of bananas. In Delmar, Del., George Morris, a plumber, was obliged to dig a hole under a house. Crawling in, he felt a stinging sensation on one arm, felt something wrapping itself around his leg. Investigation showed that Morris, who was later removed to a hospital, had invaded the lair of 27 fierce snakes. On behalf of the town of Chipley, Fla., the Orange...