Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporters now refer to it as a rat-haunt, shudder at its squalid gloom. To Ben Day it was the amazing manifestation of a newspaper idea he had conceived, toyed with, but left to others to carry through...
...bind him with adhesive tape while he is having his shoes shined. A high-school girl (Judith Allen) entertains his bodyguard while the boys take Garrett to a deserted factory, try him in a kangaroo court, exact his confession to both murders by dunking him in a rat-infested well. The conclusion is an amazing scene, presumably a DeMil-lenium, in which the schoolboys parade through the streets singing such songs as "The Old Grey Mare" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" while riding Garrett on a rail to the courthouse...
...career. He was making good money there, booming worthless real estate and running a crooked lottery until his partners, whom he had tried to cheat, exposed him. He moved on, established himself in Mineral City, and bought a moribund newspaper, The Chronicle. Garr took to yellow journalism like a rat to a sewer. By sensational news stories, circulation-forcing dodges, in a month he had quintupled the Chronicle's circulation. He tried to drive the competing paper off the streets by bribing or terrorizing the newsdealers. He reprinted every want-ad in his rival's columns, then claimed...
...each. To United Dry Docks, Inc.-two 1,500-ton destroyers at $3,400,000 each. The contract prices did not include armament or special fittings. After bids were opened fortnight ago, Florida's bumbling Senator Trammell, chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, thought he smelled a rat. In a letter to President Roosevelt recommending rejection of all cruiser bids, he charged the shipbuilders with collusion, accused them of protecting one another so that each would certainly be low bidder on at least one type of vessel. The Navy investigated, could find no substantiation of Mr. Trammell...
...Though he operated chiefly in the Midwest, his favorite trick was to wire a Manhattan broker for a bid on a block of bonds. Whatever was bid he promptly accepted, then mailed the bonds draft attached to a Manhattan bank, received his money long before the broker sniffed a rat. In New York State a seller of hot goods has virtually the same legal status as a thief. But in Minnesota and many another State, the fence can plead ignorance. Thus for years Fence Connolly did a land-office business. He was finally nabbed by U. S. postal authorities...