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...mysterious Snooper Man, phantom Lowell House marauder, left his mark last night in the Bellboy library for the second time in a row, completely baffling a police force of tutors, yard police, and janitors which has been trying to unmask the culprit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL LIBRARY RAIDED AGAIN BY SNOOPER MAN | 1/10/1941 | See Source »

...yard police staff has as yet no definite suspects in mind, but is pursuing the trail of the Snooper Man in relentless fashion. One tutor threatened dire punishment to the guilty one when finally apprehended, declaring "By golly, we'll string him up by the thumbs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL LIBRARY RAIDED AGAIN BY SNOOPER MAN | 1/10/1941 | See Source »

...risky flight to take, for a fleet at sea in wartime would be glad to have its escort planes shoot down any air snooper. But perhaps, flying in the distance, Seidenfaden's plane was taken for one of the escort. He overtook the Nazi vanguard near the Norwegian coast, swooped down in time to see the first units of the Nazi fleet moving into Oslo Fjord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scandinavia Story | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...favorite, William Gibbs McAdoo, for the Senate. One hour later the Record came out with the McAdoo editorial missing, in its place an urgent plea for the election of the Rev. Robert Pierce ("Fighting Bob'') Shuler, Prohibition candidate whom the Record had long flayed as a '"snooper" and "meddler." Readers who thought the editor had lost his mind dis covered that instead he had lost his job be tween editions, been replaced by order of James's son & successor. Edward Wyllis Scripps, 23. Year later the Record changed hands, dropped into stodgy conservatism, lost circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Coast Tabloid | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...days later the Senate Finance Committee endorsed the House repealer. Meantime with many a snort & groan, millions of U. S. citizens filled out pink slips noting the highlights of their incomes and tax payments, filed them along with their income tax returns. "This is for the snooper," "Under protest!", "To whom it does not concern" and less printable jibes were written on the slips by taxpayers. At least one lawyer, declaring the "pink slip" law unconstitutional, filed suit to force the Treasury to keep his slip secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Pink Slips | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

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