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...light. Most correspondents also have their special White House pipelines for news. It was to break up this system that President Hoover, his nerves frayed from his arduous debt negotiations, called in William H. Moran, chief of the Secret Service, and asked to know who was the White House "leak...
Died. Sherman Leland Whipple, 68 , famed Boston lawyer; of heart disease; in Brookline, Mass. Chief counsel in many a great case, he attained prominence in 1917 as counsel for Congress in the investigation of the "leak" of President Wilson's peace note to belligerents, which brought an orgy of speculation in Wall Street and charges that Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and others had profited by their advance information...
...under existing laws." To finance this and other marketing projects, the Grape Control Board had obtained from the Federal Farm Board a loan of $9,000,000. Chairman Legge of the Farm Board laughed long & loud at the suggestion that he, a Federal officer, was helping to promote a leak in the Prohibition law. But it did seem as if wine were about to return to the U. S. legally and on a large scale...
Several things went wrong as the Gertrude L. Thebaud of Gloucester, Mass. and the Bluenose of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia got ready for the international fishermen's races last week. On the way to Gloucester the fore topmast of Bluenose buckled. The Gertrude L. Thebaud sprang a leak in her stern during a practice spin. She was hauled out and re-calked. Such a leak meant nothing at all, insisted Captain Ben Pine. Boats built for work instead of pretty racing must show marks of their trade once in a while. Gertrude L. Thebaud was designed by Frank Paine...
...colored envelopes figures on crop conditions and prospects from 120,000 crop reporters throughout the land. This great bundle of reports, from which official U. S. crop estimates will later be distilled, the Secretary stows away in a great safe. No government documents are accorded greater secrecy; a "leak" might enable grain and cotton speculators to make large and illegitimate profits. On estimate day (generally the tenth of the month) the Crop Board under William Forrest Callander marches into a large top-floor room in the Department of Agriculture building, seats itself around tables on which stand computing machines. Under...