Word: spadework
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Baldwin's spadework in exposing the rackets resulted in more than 100 stories and brought on FBI. congressional and grand-jury investigations. Last week two federal grand juries handed down a fresh batch of eight criminal indictments-bringing to 38 the number of men indicted since Reporter Baldwin began his investigation...
...Ebey came from local women who had once helped prevent Pasadena's ex-Superintendent of Schools Willard E. Goslin ("A very controversial figure") from speaking in Houston. They had also helped force the schools to ban a U.N. essay contest. But when Newsman O'Leary began his spadework, he found the digging hard...
While every Manhattan paper raced for its own exclusive to keep ahead of official disclosures, Newsday patted itself on the back for its spadework: "Labor Czar Bill De Koning has been indicted . . . Scores of persons who have felt . . . De Koning's wrath have written this paper anonymously. They no longer need to fear...
Steelmakers are practically certain they will have to boost steel prices after Philip Murray's C.I.O. Steel Workers get their raise. In San Francisco last week, at the annual meeting of the California Manufacturers Association, U.S. Steel Corp.'s President Benjamin F. Fairless did a little spadework in preparation for the rise...
...service in 1924, worked in Teheran, Rome and at Whitehall. During World War II he held an important post in the Ministry of Economic Warfare, then took charge of postwar international planning. He played a key advisory role at Dumbarton Oaks, Yalta, San Francisco, did much of the British spadework for U.N. and the North Atlantic pact. Since 1948, as Deputy Under Secretary of State, he has been the trusted (and devoted) assistant to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin...