Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Griffin looked at the old man sprawled upon the stone steps. He looked at him again and turned to run away to tell his friends his father was drunk...
...Congress within the hour, they received it with the customary meekness of a well-behaved general staff listening to its chief, were promptly hustled out to make way for a press conference. Late one afternoon last week the President again called in virtually the same group, this time to tell them about the special Budget message he was sending up the Hill next day. White House attaches expected the meeting to last not more than 45 minutes. It lasted two hours, and the Congressmen emerged glowing. It had been, they declared, the "best," the "frankest," the "most helpful," the "most...
Deputy Unthank could not be questioned, having disappeared some weeks ago, but many a witness was ready & eager to tell where his "expense money" went...
...evidence appeared last week that Harlan operators and their henchmen were not to be regenerated by any such shadowboxing as a Supreme Court decision and a Senate investigation. A young grocery clerk who testified that Ben Unthank had offered him $100 to "shoot up" a union organizer, returned to tell the Committee that a Harlan deputy and three other men had followed him to a Capitol washroom and pushed him around, that he had later been warned by telephone to get out of Washington or be "buried in Arlington." Hapless...
Just what form such control would take is not definite. Loyalist sources tell that German advances have been made, proposing secession from the rest of Spain, probably to result in a state under German protection. The character of the defenders makes it unlikely that anything short of annihilation will bring them to terms. It seems that something of this sort will be the result, with some degree of German influence a surety. This will present a situation that will require strong action on the part of the British. It is an opportunity to use Briain's sea power...