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...Schuengel, the line tried to get larger accommodations in Manhattan for its big new ship. An early offerer of his good offices was Mayor Walker's German-American friend, David Maier, who used to be a brothel-keeper until he was sent to Sing Sing for trying to tamper with a witness in a legislative investigation (TiME, Sept. 14). Ex-Convict Maier procured $500 from N. G. L. to give to a sheriff who was politically influential among the city's transplanted Teutons. Then Maier said he needed another $2,500 to swing the Lloyd's pier...
...Columbia Broadcasting System wanted me to omit from the 'Prosperity Sermon.' ... I wonder if any outside pressure has been brought to bear upon the Columbia Broadcasting System by a few bigots whose minority organization figures to bulldoze the people of America and who now hope to tamper with free speech? . . . The fact still remains that they will not accept my money or my contract. . . ." Father Coughlin announced that he would continue to broadcast from Detroit over an independent hookup, thus far comprising eleven stations...
...militant Dry whose appointment in 1929 caused a political rumpus between Attorney General Mitchell and Senators Capper and Allen of that State (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929). After the verdict an investigator for the Diamond defense was seized in court, held by Judge Hopkins on charges of attempting to tamper prosecution witnesses...
...interests and the gradual sensationalization and cheapening of its news columns recently, within the outer shell of its respectable typography and make-up. It would be a pleasant boon to Bean-town if the good-natured but generally sloppy "Globe" could be prodded into over-coming its reluctance to tamper with its golden formula. It could be made into a first rate paper. And why should not the "Transcript" be chided into forsaking its snobbish contempt for the technical advances of the past quarter century in the newspaper world? In fact, would not Boston and New England profit...
Stronger than most other South American governments is that of President Carlos Ibanez, a dictator so fearless of revolution in his bailiwick that he chose last week to tamper with the drinking habits of Chileans, potent topers...