Word: tipstering
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While Waldron was working on this suspicion, a tipster called from Tampa -collect-and invited him down. There he learned something about the extravagant tastes of John Hammer, Governor Bryant's appointee as Turnpike Authority chairman. While on the job, Hammer stayed at a $65-a-day hotel room, paid as much as $30 a day to eat, and put corsages for his secretary on the tab. He chartered a plane, and charged taxpayers for more hours aloft than the plane was actually flown. Under Hammer's loose hand, headlined the Times, a $100 million road had stretched...
...Commons, Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath revealed that Philby had surfaced "in one of the countries of the Soviet bloc." New information had come to light, said Heath, that revealed that Philby had been a Soviet agent while working for the government and in fact had been the tipster who had warned Burgess and Maclean...
...Burgess and Maclean danced out of Britain a step ahead of the British police. Rumors persisted that the pair had been warned by a government official that the heat was on, and in 1955 a Labor M.P. rose in the House of Commons to accuse Philby of being the tipster. Admitting that Philby had been asked to resign from the Foreign Office because of his friendship with Burgess, Harold Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, otherwise completely cleared him of any charge of treason or of being the "socalled 'third man,' if indeed there was one." But despite the official...
...little-known Canadian baker named Garfield Weston journeyed down to Wall Street armed with an idea and $10,000. The $10,000 he paid to a Wall Street tipster to get him just five minutes with some of the cash-heavy New York financiers who had made a killing by selling short in the Great Crash. Then, to five of Wall Street's biggest "bears," including Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, Weston offered his idea: buy up British bakeries at Depression prices to provide a readymade outlet for Canada's vast supplies of cheap wheat...
...months after the snatch, a tipster went to Interpol's Paris headquarters and told of two men with no visible means of support who were rolling in money. The two: Pierre Larcher and Raymond Rolland. Investigating, the police called on Raymond's ex-wife and learned that early last April, Raymond had borrowed her Hermes typewriter and never returned...