Word: eavesdropping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WMCA's frightened answer gave its show away. It had employed no code expert or anybody else to eavesdrop on admiralty communications; it bought all its ruff from the International News Service, from the Mirror, from the Herald Tribune; all it knew was what the papers said. As far as the trade press ads went, they had just seemed like a good idea at the time...
...gotta right to eavesdrop. I'm a reporter...
...Catholics of Germany, from the Cardinals down to the last priest, wished they knew where Der Führer was last week. Was it with or without his approval that the No. 2 Nazi, Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, had ordered his secret police to eavesdrop at every church and report for later punishment clerics who "falsely employ the authority of their spiritual position for political purposes"-i. e. criticize the Nazi State. "The Church dare not," declared General Göring in his passionate and somewhat incoherent decree, "call upon God against the State-an atrocity that...
People with important secrets do not yet whisper them into radio telephones because they know that anyone with a radio set can eavesdrop. But last week in Manhattan, Sergius Paul Grace, vice president of Bell Telephone Laboratories, demonstrated how radio conversations may be absolutely private. Mr. Grace played a phonograph record into a special type of microphone. The audience heard an ordinary speech. Then he took away the microphone, played the record alone. Listeners heard a gibberish of strange grunts and squeaks...