Word: tidbit
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...connoisseurs of Ickes-hating, the announcement was a particularly choice tidbit, iridescent with proof that the oil shortage had existed only in Mr. Ickes' mind. Ickes' assistants philosophically reminded themselves of what they had said all along: that if they succeeded in averting a shortage, they would forever be damned because no shortage arrived...
...give up. Corfu's civil, religious and military authorities conferred, decided to give themselves up to the Germans rather than the Italians. Their excellent reason: while the Germans might someday return the island to Greek control. Italy, once she had swallowed it, would never disgorge such a strategic tidbit...
...abroad was indicated by whispered gossip in Rome that Fascist Secretary Achille Starace had formed a cabal backed by the King, the Army and the peasantry, which would oust II Duce from his job if he went to war on Germany's side. What was significant about this tidbit was not so much whether it had a basis of fact, but that it could get around...
...nothing so delights official Washington as seeing his vast Associated Gas & Electric Co. caught off-base. SEC is trying to delist A. G. & E. stock from the New York Curb Exchange because of alleged "false and misleading" statements in its prospectus. Last week its investigation turned up a choice tidbit which SEC promptly speared...
...cloak rooms of the Capitol Congressmen goggled last week over a tidbit of information that came out of their hearings on National Defense. Last May when the War Department was short $3,300,000 to purchase machinery to make smokeless powder for the Army, rich, patriotic Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch made an offer to Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson to put up the money from his own pocket. Financed instead by a Congressional appropriation recommended by the President, the machinery is now nearly complete. An obstacle to this generosity: such gifts to the U. S. require...