Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Phenomena. "Dull but important" is Senator O'Mahoney's apologetic phrase for the Investigation. He hoped to make witnesses, however big of wig, feel (though subpoenaed) like voluntary bugs on a slide instead of the quarry in a witch-hunt. His program first called up big bugs from the motors and glass industries-Edsel Ford, William Knudsen, George A. Ball, William Levis-to be examined scientifically with special reference to their patent and sales practices as typical U. S. industrial phenomena...
...Alaska Steamship Co., boosted its business 50% between 1933 and 1937. Last week, to fill an old vacancy, he was elected board chairman of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., which has long wanted directors with broad transport experience. Quiet, energetic Thomas Wilson, 46, is already air-minded; he likes to hunt bears in the Arctic, often uses airplanes on his big-game junkets...
First thing Mayor Bowron did was demand the resignations of the members of all the city's governing commissions from police to parks. Grandstanding District Attorney Buron Fitts then joined the graft hunt, impaneled a grand jury. First graft flushed was in the civil service examinations for promotions in the police and fire departments. When an influential Mexican-born police lieutenant named Peter ("The Thin Man") Del Gado, a great friend of Police Chief James Edgar Davis, denied taking bribes to tamper the examinations, he was indicted for perjury. Last fortnight Thin Man Del Gado gave a friend...
...social and economic life were being promulgated daily. No German Jew may enter any non-Jewish place of entertainment or education. No Jew may conduct any commercial business or service. The professions had not been entirely closed to them. That would come later. Meantime, blustering Reich Master of the Hunt Hermann Göring withdrew all Jewish hunting licenses...
Steve Madey and Art Wells were the Eliot battery while Jim Monkman pitched to Hunt Hamill for Leverett. The Elephants, undefeated in two games this year, scored their runs in three productive innings, the third, fifth, and seventh...