Word: leak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attorney General Francis Biddle hailed the indictment as "shutting off one of the worst leaks of strategic materials . . . to the enemy." But what mystified many a plain citizen, as well as financier, was: Why had the Justice Department waited two years to plug the "worst leak...
Sirs: With what glee certain egocentric commentators and papers unfriendly to our Allies seize upon the Lisbon leak to castigate Reuters and attribute, by inference, that it was Britain's perfidy again...
Secretary of War Stimson apparently had intended to release a few Bari details at his weekly press conference. But after the Post story, newsmen found him sizzling. His anger seemed greater than was justified by a mere premature news "leak." He was brusque, stiff, and cut the conference short. When a reporter wanted to know if the Allies had actually been caught napping, Stimson snapped: "No! I will not comment on this thing...
...excited over the prospect of a shower that yields water at Dillon Field House. The H. A. A. got wind of it and had the leak repaired immediately...
...school was organized in June of 1942 as one of the most hush-hush of all Harvard's war activities, but news about it began to leak out around the end of the year, and Time Magazine told the complete story of the school in January of this year. The commander officer of the school is Lieutenant-Colonel John Hoflin...