Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whisper wakes, the shudder plays...
...ground work, Fallon put on the fireworks display in court. A tricky lawyer when he had to be, his specialty was getting his client off by a disagreement in the jury. He "hung the jury" so often by the score of 11 to 1 that finally people began to whisper of bribery. At 34, Fallon had won 126 cases straight...
Last week rail bonds sank perilously close to their lows for the year in the wake of a liquidation which carried railroad common stock averages below their 1931 lows. On all sides the whisper was heard that savings banks were selling their holdings rather than await an avalanche of selling after the first of the year. This whisper was highly unlikely since many months will elapse before even the weakest of issues will be outlawed by bank examiners. Selling by managers of trust funds was certainly an important factor in the decline, but the deduction from this that savings banks...
That afternoon Judge Barnhill, his pale face grave as the Law, his voice almost a whisper, his hands trembling, read his penalties. Col. Lea's wife gripped her husband's hand so tightly that her knuckles were white. Their daughter, Mary Louise, 7, who had spent the weeks romping through the court room, sat quietly next to him, looking scared. For Col. Lea the Judge ordered imprisonment for from six to ten years. The Colonel paled, then flushed, but his lips were motionless. His wife nearly sobbed. When Luke Lea Jr. heard he had been fined...
Correspondents were a little uncertain of the exact significance of the Briining-Curtius visit. Officially it was a "visit of courtesy" to thank Mussolini for his quick acceptance of the Hoover Moratorium, to discuss general European conditions. Imaginative reporters were quick to whisper "anti-French alliance...