Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately last week the countless partisans Mooney has attracted since his imprisonment began a nationwide search for State's Witness MacDonald. The Scripps-Howard San Francisco News offered $500 for his apprehension, advertised: "He is 5 ft. 7 in. tall. . . . His hair ... is probably gray now and thinner. His eyes are black. He had a thin face and a slight body...
...reprinting Reporter Brundidge's findings, the Tribune drew the hostility of its competitors, and last week openly charged them with obstructing the search for Lingle's murderer. The Daily News and the Herald & Examiner tried but failed to force the removal of Charles T. Rathbun, the lawyer whom the Tribune had had appointed as special assistant state's attorney for the Lingle case. Other newspapers, the Tribune claimed, were printing information which served as warnings to men sought by police...
...event, the Tribune said last week, those things "could be important leads into the crimes of the underworld, but their presentation has changed the atmosphere from one of co-operation to one of hostility. . . . The search [for Lingle's murderer] is confused and obstructed by publishers who should be interested in making the pursuit relentless wherever it leads. . . . The decency and honesty of newspaper work in this city is on public trial...
Because the world is their statistical province, experts of the League of Nations at Geneva are always a bit behind. They announced cheerfully last week that they have now caught up to 1928 in their search to find out how much U. S. tourists spend abroad and how much immigrants in the U. S. send back to the "old countries...
...determined was President Hoover to keep the Commission working along the broad track of all crime, to prevent its specialization on Prohibition, that House leaders scurried about in search of a parliamentary trick whereby the N. L. E. C. might in the end get $250,000 with no strings attached...