Word: portis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday morning Investigator Rabell drove over from his home in Pelham, N. Y. to the Jones estate in Scarsdale. Dressed in white linen, the smart, baldish accountant was led into the Jones study, which was fairly crawling with microphones and dictaphones-under the desk, under the couch, in the portiéres, behind the radiators and pictures, in the radio cabinet. Upstairs two court stenographers recorded every word, and a platoon of lawyers and officials listened in. Mr. Jones was particularly pleased that SECounsel Burns was on hand...