Word: tipster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great fondness for food, drink and cards. His apartment in the heart of Rome was furnished more like a garconniere than the chaste retiring place of a church dignitary. And he liked money. In the '305 he made as much as $1,000 a month as tipster to foreign correspondents...
Hearst newspapers know that the way to get the best pickings of crashes, crimes and calamities is to get there first. A year ago, Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner decided to draft every Angeleno as a news tipster. For the best "outside" news tip sent in each week, the Examiner offered...
...delegates to the Democratic National Convention (see p. 20), Another, perhaps more significant, had passed unnoticed except by the close observers: into an office in the new wing of the White House, as one of the "anonymous assistants," had moved swarthy, soft-voiced David K. Niles, political tipster and fixer extraordinary, a smooth operator who wangled $500,000 from the United Mine Workers for the 1936 Democratic war chest and who was undercover man for the New Deal janizariat in many a quiet operation during the 1940 campaign. Niles's presence close to the President has a plain meaning...
...market until prices hit $60 a ton (last week's price: about $47, an 18-year high). Wheat farmers have withheld so much (about 40%) of this year's bumper 950,000,000 bushel crop that the conservative Bureau of Agricultural Economics last week turned tipster, predicted wheat would jump another icxf; a bushel within a few months. It now figures 1941 U.S. cash farm income at $10,500,000,000, 15% above last year and the highest since...
...popular 1929 tipster stock was International Rustless Iron, whose 5,000,000 shares bounced up and down like a rubber ball. The crash put a tarnish on International Rustless; in 1932 its stock kicked around at 15? a share. Among burnt stockholders were tall, rusty-haired Yale athlete Charles Shipman Payson. socialite and horse-lover, and sturdy, up-from-the ranks Clarence Ewing Tuttle, a banker engineer from Hastings, Minn...