Word: overtness
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Echoes of the shots were heard many miles from Albany. This had been no ordinary Prohibition raid. A very definite understanding had existed between the Federal agents and Boss O'Connell. If not molested, "The Gut" had promised to restrain itself from too-overt alcohol smugglings and rowdy boozings. Following the political tirades of Theodore Roosevelt the younger that a slimy trail of vice and corruption had crawled "to the very steps of the State Capitol," Boss O'Connell and his friends had been "making character" for the sake of Governor Smith...
Although there is nothing overt to indicate that these two almost simultaneous attacks against chain food stores were planned jointly or with premeditation, their coincidence means that food distributers are developing an aggressive defense against the expansion of chain store business. Such tactics may indeed stir food chains to merge. At present they number about 800 (with 60,000 stores competing with about 300,000 independent retail stores). Hitherto chain stores have been highly individualistic, each system spreading out like strawberry vines from a parent plant. Nor have they, except for the Kroger grocery stores and the J. C. Penney...
Last week the strained situation thus indicated led finally to an overt and acrimonious interchange of statements by His Holiness and Il Duce. When the lightning of their irritation had cleared the air, all hopes for a settlement of the Roman Question, this year, had gone glimmering...
...feared to have so impetuous a man in the White House when southern Democrats were shouting: "Tell me, if the hoisting of the Black Republican flag . . . by a Frenchman's bastard, while the arms of civil war are already clashing [in Kansas], is not to be deemed an overt act and declaration of war?" So, placid Fillmore of the Whig party took enough votes away from Frémont to give the election to portly, blundering Buchanan of the Democrats...
...know how many inhabitants of the U. S. consumed the 97,176,607,484 cigarets manufactured in 1927. Women have come to swell the legion, and for the first time in history the 1927 advertising budgets contained provisions for direct appeals to them. (Marlboro cigarets pushed the first overt advertising campaign for women smokers.) Production of cigarets last year was more than double that of 1920 and six times as great as that...