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First, according to the proprietor, a person with the mien of a policeman entered Cordials and Beverages carrying a copy of TIME, pointed accusingly to the story of the shop's booze-selling, demanded $75 hush money, received...
...political writer in Washington. Virginia-born 35 years ago, Newsman West has covered many a National Convention in his 16 years' work with the A. P. He closely tagged Herbert Hoover from his Kansas City nomination to his entry into the White House. A hush-hush reporter with the manner of always having a big story up his sleeve, Newsman West has worked so long in the shadow of the G. O. P. that he will have little or nothing to learn as the new expositor of its political creed...
Parity of Japanese submarines with British and U. S. was said to be a feature of the hush-hush document. On the whole the London Conference, last week, began for the first time really to move...
Blackmail. Two Bostonian District Attorneys and a Federal District Attorney's assistant put the "age-old badger game on a big business basis." It cost disporting cinema tycoons $105,000 to hush up one party; $120,000 preserved the reputation of a famed tenor; $380,000 kept a New England railroad president's name unsullied...
When white-lipped "Saint Maggie" risked a closure vote, bellowing John Wheately rushed into the Opposition lobby ahead of the Conservatives themselves, took with him other Clydesiders-fiery Jimmy Maxton, carrot-haired George Buchanan, dour David Kirkwood. Amid Tory cheers and then a dead hush Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin edged over for a tense, whispered conference with Liberal David Lloyd George. If the Welshman agreed to go in with Baldwin, as he did fortnight ago on the picayune messenger boys issue (TIME, Dec. 9), then the MacDonald Cabinet was as good as done. But Mr. Lloyd George is peculiar. Like...