Word: leaked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others. They went to Washington for a meeting of the executive committee of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, of which they are members. Laid before the committee was a complaint from the Navy and War Departments that secret aircraft developments submitted to the N.A.C.A. for research had leaked into the hands of foreign powers. Last week the committee undertook a "campaign" to plug the leak, began by refusing even to reveal what had already leaked...
...Illoway 2, Roorbach, Walsh, Rogers 3, Keyes. Fouls--Nottingham 2, Roorbach, S. W. Stern, Rogers 2, Buschmann. Referee--Vahan Moushegian. Time--two 15-minute periods. ADAMS LEVERETT Wills, Chiron, r.f. l.f., Cogswell, Maddux, Reed Anderson, Donahue, l.f. r.f., Wallace, Byer, Woodruff DeBlois, Huntington, c.c., Jahn, Raysor Young, r.g. l.g., Leak, Lasinsky Hale, l.g. r.g., Mangels, Johnson, Stevens...
Last week Messrs. Morgenthau, Bailie and Jones varied their daily routine, tried in vain to discover where the leak might be. Whether or not their dismay at the undiscovered leak was responsible, they kept the RFC gold price at $34.01 for nine successive business days, longer than the price has stayed unchanged at any time since it was first announced. On the theory that the price could not be discovered by wire tapping no Secret Service men were called upon. Earle Bailie was given the job of playing amateur detective...
...leak leaked on. Asked whether any progress had been made in stopping it, Sleuth Bailie cosily replied: "We always make progress...
...belief that the goodwill between the Treasury Department and the Press, built up in the last 15 years, has been seriously impaired. . . ." Well aware was President Roosevelt of the political necessity of keeping on good terms with the Press, of the impossibility of stopping each & every news leak at the Treasury. Next day Secretary Morgenthau realized his mistake when he modified General Order No. 1 so that correspondents could still interview minor officials on matters of fact but reserved for his own office all statements of policy and opinion...