Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typical Tammany tactics: Say nothing, admit nothing, lie low. During the Seabury inquiry into the city's police and judiciary a long parade of vice squad men had refused to tell the source of their astonishingly large bank rolls on the ground of possible self-incrimination (TIME, Dec. 2Q, et seq.). Tammany district leaders, along with indignant Boss John Francis Curry, had refused en masse to waive their constitutional immunity for questioning. "They love to wave the Stars & Stripes," sang the Press, "but will not waive immunity...
After boiling the then king's favorite general in oil, Nadir Khan, "the Afghan George Washington," ascended the throne in picturesque Kabul and has since successfully remained there (TIME, Oct. 28, 1929 et seq.). He has waxed friendly with his neighbor to the southward beyond the Khyber Pass-Lis Britannic Majesty's colonial government in India. Thus the British have been far happier than when plump Amanullah reigned, taking millions in gifts from them but making the Russians his closest economic allies. Far, far happier are they than during the subsequent brief reign of Bandit-King Bacha Sakao...
Permitted to file a list of witnesses as to the truth of his editorial, Murtz Ahmad Khan named the Foreign Secretary, the Afghan Consul General, the Director of Public Information, et al. The court ruled that these witnesses were too important, that they could have no connection with the case, that the defendant must list names of lesser stature...
...Committee, so far as was revealed, is to intensify public sentiment in favor of press-freedom. Speakers at the meeting viewed with alarm the fact that the U. S. Supreme Court voted the Minnesota "gag law" unconstitutional by such a small margin as 5 to 4 (TIME, June 8 et ante). But the first specific function of the Committee will be a celebration of that vote, on Oct. 20 at Thomas Jefferson's ''Monticello" near Charlottesville, Va. One room of "Monticello," maintained by the Jefferson Foundation, is to be designated "Freedom of the Press Room." Sponsors...
Perhaps motivated by unselfish desires to help customers, perhaps fearful lest their affairs be dragged into the open as have those of Cities Service Co. (TIME. July 20 et seq.) last week the Insull power, light and gas properties in Kansas announced voluntary rate reductions. The North American Light & Power group reduced electric rates by 15% in 219 towns, gas rates 14% in 52 towns...