Word: informant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labour unions, people who inform, on the activities of their fellow workers are known as "stool pigeons" and "rats". We wonder whether Harvard students, who have not yet had much acquaintance with such people, will recognize John J. Reidy and his fellow editors for what they are. We know that Benny Goodman and William Gouldston, the thugs of the Boston Red Squad, will see kindred souls in the "Crimson" sanctum...
...offers to France looking toward eternal amity. If any such offers have been made, the French Foreign Office and the Berlin Embassy of France have never disclosed what they are and neither has Adolf Hitler. The half-amazed, half-angry reaction of the Paris Cabinet last week was to inform the world press that Ambassador André François-Poncet will be ordered to call upon Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath at the earliest possible moment and ask what the German Government does propose...
...Charles Joseph Margiotti were above reproach, that the Inquirer had maliciously defamed him. When it came to charging the jury last week, Judge William S. McLean Jr. announced, among other things, that the Inquirer's article was privileged-i. e., the paper was entitled under Pennsylvania law to inform the public in full about Mr. Margiotti's activities as lawyer and Attorney General, so long as the information was true, unless the jury believed that the publication was maliciously made. After more than 28 hours, the jury acquitted the Inquirer of criminal libel...
Replied the British Foreign Office last week to Ambassador Dino Grandi: "Mr. Eden has the honor to inform His Excellency that . . . His Majesty's Government . . . do not feel that any useful purpose would be served by prolonging the correspondence on the subject...
...dismissal of Major General Hagood for criticizing the New Deal is just one more example of the methods employed by the Administration to prevent the public from hearing authoritative criticism. Any person who has access to the truth and tries to inform the people or the Congress of the United States about it is quickly removed from the scene by Roosevelt, or the men who do his strong-arm work for him. No doubt if Major General Hagood continues to criticize the Administration, his reputation will be vilified, just as have the reputations of all those who have opposed...