Word: rewarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only reward I may offer you (probably the only reward you would accept) is a copy of my address on the "Care and Feeding of Politicians...
...Last month a harmless Bronx inhabitant was murdered, apparently mistaken for another man whose knowledge the Leopard would not consider harmless (TIME, Aug. 7). Up started a hue & cry against Tom Dewey for not protecting his prospective witnesses.* Thereupon Tom Dewey had the city post a $25,000 cash reward for Lepke, dead or alive, in addition to $5,000 offered by the Federal Government. Pat came announcement of a nationwide crime drive, "the greatest ever" by the F. B. I., through the office of Tom Dewey's neighbor and contemporary, U. S. District Attorney John T. Cahill, friend...
...wounded. Democrat Foley fumed loudly & bitterly at Republican Dewey for not guarding his witnesses sooner, so that innocent citizens who resemble them should not be erased by mistake. Furious in turn, Republican Dewey got guards for scores of other prospective Lepke witnesses, asked the city to post $25,000 reward for lethal Gangster Lepke, dead or alive, flooded the nation with Get-Lepke circulars...
...yellow whirl under the editorship of Emile Gauvreau, later editor of Bernarr Macfadden's late New York Graphic. The Courant readers (44.000 daily, 67,000 Sunday) get for their 4? no big headlines but plenty of features, local titbits, hobby news. Today the Old Lady is reaping the reward of her most impressive campaign, a consistent fight on Prohibition. Hard pressed by Frank Gannett's Evening Times, which refuses liquor advertising, the Courant enjoys about $50,000 worth a year...
...effete young man eloping with a millionairess, a big-shot racketeer's little son in care of one of the mob, a tough girl on the lam from her past, an anarchist returning to his homeland gallows with a captor to whom he means a $5,000 reward...