Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning, began to swim an American crawl toward Tahoe Tavern, Calif., 16 miles away. Almost immediately, she began to encounter difficulties. The old man in her pilot boat misdirected her. A wind came up and blew her eight miles off her course. Her goggles began to leak, water to blind her. After the first eight hours, she suffered from acute nausea and pains in her arm. Twice she fainted but, on recovering, prayed that the torture of cold might not be added to her obstacles. She was further encouraged by the yells of her 15-year-old son Everett...
...light. Most correspondents also have their special White House pipelines for news. It was to break up this system that President Hoover, his nerves frayed from his arduous debt negotiations, called in William H. Moran, chief of the Secret Service, and asked to know who was the White House "leak...
...Washington papers before he reaches his office. He has little sense of personal news value, no capacity to ignore what he dislikes.* The story of his fast ride from the Rapidan upset him because obviously he had violated Virginia's 45 m. p. h. speed law. But his leak investigation served only to revive public interest in this and other stories to which he objected. Among these were newssquibs that...
Died. Sherman Leland Whipple, 68 , famed Boston lawyer; of heart disease; in Brookline, Mass. Chief counsel in many a great case, he attained prominence in 1917 as counsel for Congress in the investigation of the "leak" of President Wilson's peace note to belligerents, which brought an orgy of speculation in Wall Street and charges that Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and others had profited by their advance information...
Several things went wrong as the Gertrude L. Thebaud of Gloucester, Mass. and the Bluenose of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia got ready for the international fishermen's races last week. On the way to Gloucester the fore topmast of Bluenose buckled. The Gertrude L. Thebaud sprang a leak in her stern during a practice spin. She was hauled out and re-calked. Such a leak meant nothing at all, insisted Captain Ben Pine. Boats built for work instead of pretty racing must show marks of their trade once in a while. Gertrude L. Thebaud was designed by Frank Paine...