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...With her two hefty sons, Tom and Chris, she operates the Greene Line, founded by her late husband. At 68, she can do most shipboard jobs, bosses her crews without profanity, likes to sew and embroider on deck. Recently "Ma" Greene bought for $135,000 the old-style packet Cape Girardeau which Chicago's onetime Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson used to use for political junkets. Renamed the Gordon C. Greene for "Ma" Greene's husband, she was ready last week, with 100 passengers and 700 tons of whiskey, soap and paint, to re-open steamboat passenger service between...
Having persuaded Investigator Rabell to incriminate himself thoroughly, Mr. Jones passed him a packet of marked bills. When the Investigator opened the study door to depart he was confronted by two Federal agents descending the stairs, guns drawn. He fled into the dining room, tossed the bills behind the door, surrendered...
...impulse he rose, and padded across the room to his desk, and drew from it a packet of letters. These he skimmed through, smiling abstractedly; at one he blushed furiously and wagged his head in self-reproof. He looked long at the picture on his desk, and then his gaze wandered guiltily to his book, now abandoned on the floor. Again he stood at the window, but this time he saw nothing. He took in great gulps of the sweet air, trying to choke himself on the scents of Spring...
...President John W. Young of Federal Laboratories, Inc. brought gifts for the committee-one wooden model of a Thompson submachine gun, two sample gas bombs, one packet of sickening-gas crystals. On the stand Armsman Young told how in December 1933 he sold President Ramon Grau of Cuba 60 submachine guns while simultaneously negotiating with Colonel Mendieta about another revolution. In return Mr. Young was later retained at $12,000 to reorganize the Cuban police force...
...biggest scoop of the War occurred when a German deserter who had escaped into Holland fetched a bulky packet from under his coat and asked Captain Landau : "What is this worth to you?" Meekly the German accepted £100 for the latest edition of the German