Word: snooper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite, William Gibbs McAdoo, for the Senate. One hour later the Record came out with the McAdoo editorial missing, in its place an urgent plea for the election of the Rev. Robert Pierce ("Fighting Bob'') Shuler, Prohibition candidate whom the Record had long flayed as a '"snooper" and "meddler." Readers who thought the editor had lost his mind dis covered that instead he had lost his job be tween editions, been replaced by order of James's son & successor. Edward Wyllis Scripps, 23. Year later the Record changed hands, dropped into stodgy conservatism, lost circulation...
...days later the Senate Finance Committee endorsed the House repealer. Meantime with many a snort & groan, millions of U. S. citizens filled out pink slips noting the highlights of their incomes and tax payments, filed them along with their income tax returns. "This is for the snooper," "Under protest!", "To whom it does not concern" and less printable jibes were written on the slips by taxpayers. At least one lawyer, declaring the "pink slip" law unconstitutional, filed suit to force the Treasury to keep his slip secret...
...Prohibition sleuth. In this book, dedicated "to the 4,932 persons I arrested, hoping they bear me no grudge for having done my duty." Izzy chucklingly describes his dizzy career. Stanley Walker, the New York Herald Tribune's able city editor, enthusiastically introduces him, calls him "most engaging snooper in history. ... If every agent had been as industrious, as capable and as intelligent as Izzy, this country would be Dry today, if the courts could have handled the cases, God forbid...
Only four of the twelve Presidents have completed their seven-year terms: Emile Loubet, Armand Fallieres, Raymond Poincare and Gaston Doumergue. If the President is a snooper he can have great fun?for a duplicate of every letter, telegram or cablegram received by the French Foreign Office goes by right and custom to the Elys?...
French priests were ordered last week by Franç Cardinal Verdier, new Archbishop of Paris, to begin an "extensive survey" of the spread of the "cocktail evil" in their parishes. Neither a snooper nor a prude, His Eminence thus showed that he is in harmony with the great body of French public opinion which holds...