Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigators, working day and night, uncovered evidence showing that he owed the Treasury $1,111,000 in taxes. When his trial began bull-necked Irving Wexler affected bored unconcern. Hands laced across his paunch, he dozed while lawyers droned. But spry, boyish Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey soon jolted him wide awake with 140 witnesses and 900 exhibits carefully tracing the history and ramifications of Wexler's beer business. He showed that while Wexler was reporting an income of $8,000 and paying a tax of $10.76. he was living royally off the profits of his breweries, was investing large...
...Were roused from their customary lethargy by three dukes who scathingly attacked the anti-lottery laws under which His Grace the Duke of Atholl was fined ?25 for conducting a nation-wide charity lottery which realized ?152,000 (TIME...
Meanwhile there was drawing to a close last week a nation-wide reaffirmation of faith in Jesus Christ and His final command: "Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost...
...price cutting. As an appendage of the automobile dealers' code under NRA, the manual listed the maximum trade-in allowance on every make and model of car. No dealer could offer a customer more without violating the code. risking punishment. The prices listed were compiled from nation-wide second-hand sales by the National Automobile Dealers Association, which issues its Official Used Car Guide on prices each month...
...hostile editor as "one litre of castor oil." Lately Minister Goebbels' methods have grown less rudimentary. Last autumn, he "consecrated"' the German Press to Nazi service with a law that made it a crime to practice journalism in Germany except as a member of a nation-wide closed shop. Last week, Nazi control of the Press went one step further when it was announced that Germany's two biggest news services, the Telegraphen-Union and Wolff's Telegraph Bureau, had merged because of ''recent economic developments in the German Press...