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With his cash and profits, Fixer Plummer would pay off the "financial news boys." If they were ticklish about checks, he delivered cash through a payoff man! Payments ranged from...
...nesting of five tiny fighting planes in a marsupial hangar, located amidships within the outer envelope. Through a T-shaped trapdoor the planes, hooked to a trapeze, can be discharged or hoisted in. For the past year the Navy has been training special crack pilots to negotiate the ticklish landing, which consists of threading a large hook atop the plane to the trapeze bar on the mother ship...
...amendment to the floor, much less the two-thirds required to pass it. What they did expect was to compel all Congress-men-Wets, Drys and Weaslers-to stand up and be counted* for the first time since 1917 on an issue that will be one of the most ticklish in the 1932 campaign. Counting day, it was announced last week, will be March...
Well aware is Boss Curry of the Hall's present ticklish situation, for which there is an interesting parallel in the last great Tammany scandal. In 1912, the year before Boss Murphy had Governor Sulzer impeached, a gambler named Herman Rosenthal was killed on the eve of his giving damaging evidence against venal policemen. Within four months Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, "Lefty Louis" Rosenberg, "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz, "Whitey" Lewis and "Dago Frank" Ciro-fici were sentenced to death for the murder. The reaction to this affair gave the State a Reform Governor (Charles S. Whitman), the city a Reform...
...explain President Hoover's sudden precipitation of so explosive an issue at such a ticklish time, observers came to a combination of conclusions. Apparently this move was part of the new Hoover determination, visible in other matters as well (see col. 2), to take a stronger hand with Congress, especially the Senate. Another large factor was undoubtedly the great lobby pressure placed on the Administration by Frederick J. Libby, executive secretary of the National Council for the Prevention of War. Lobbyist Libby, experienced at building great fires under great men on great issues, has long concentrated the full influence...