Word: leaked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stirred at a possible "leak" of military secrets, the War Department began an immediate investigation. In Chicago, General Crowder denied he had revealed any General Staff plans, explained that the abandonment of the U. S. Philippine traffic lane was his own idea...
Causes for Mr. Burke's departure: 1) A new National Committee chairman (Claudius Hart Huston) who lets no one "officiate" for him; 2) A tendency to "leak" to newspapermen about President Hoover's political troubles; 3) A cloud cast by Mrs. Willebrandt's accusation, and never dispelled by his feeble denial, that Mr. Burke sanctioned her religio-political campaign speeches (TIME, Aug. 19); 4) Failure to deal successfully with Southern Hoovercrats; 5) A capacity for arousing antagonisms against the President among heterodox Senators...
Alcohol. "The greatest single source of liquor supply today is the alcohol diverted illegally from concerns bearing the stamp of respectability in the form of a government permit. . . . To trace leaks has become well-nigh impossible. The Government's policy has been like pouring BB shot on the floor with one hand and trying to pick it up with the other." Commercial alcohol production in 1918: 50,000,000 gals.; in 1928: 90,000,000 gals. Smuggling: "The leak second in importance is border smuggling. Illicit importation seeks the low moral levels of our border service. . . . Detroit...
...Finance Committee in framing their tariff bill. Chief among these was the violation of their shut-mouth rule by James Couzens, a committee member. The committee's doings, the ups and downs of rates, were supposed to be secret, but when high-protectionist Senators commenced to "leak to interested business men, Senator Couzens, as independent as he is rich, could see no reason why he should not likewise tell his constituents what he was doing...
...called ethics of that so-called profession, he will decline to say where he got his information and I, for one, would enforce the proceedings against him that are appropriate for a contempt of the Senate. ... If we would show a little determination we would find out where the leak...