Word: springing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...affairs," he (or she) says. "This group is invited to everything. When more than 250 men are needed as at balls, etc., additional men are invited, but these men receive the cream of all the invitations." The writer goes on to say that the list is made up each spring from the graduates of about four well known preparatory schools, that the Harvard Deans are forced each year to beg Boston hostesses to exclude Freshmen, and that a large number of departing students each year owe their hegira to over-active social duties...
Such could never be the method of President Hoover. Yet last spring he did name Capone by name and though averse to "drives" of any sort by the Federal power, he did tell newsgatherers that concerted Federal action would be taken against the thriving Underworld. He said the line would be prosecution for violations of the income-tax and other (Volstead, Harrison, Mann, Dyer) Government statutes (TIME, May 19). He cited the indictment for income-tax fraud of Scarface's brother, Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, to illustrate the kind of action he meant...
...failed to declare $229,000 in his income tax returns. The Internal Revenue agent in Chicago an nounced last week that Scarface's own bank-accounts, and records of his nu merous gambling-joints, nightclubs, dog tracks, were being searched diligently; his indictment was forecast before spring. Law & Order did not know where Scarface was last week. One report positively located him, heavily guarded, in a North Side (enemy) Chicago restaurant. An other had him sojourning on a California ranch, where he spoke to newsgatherers: "Don't make public where this ranch is . . . Federal raps are hard...
...vigilantly spent at least $1,000,000 a day. He met every December offering at 73? per bu. or higher. When he finished, Grain Stabilization Corp. had added some 20,000,000 bu. of wheat to the 60,000,000 bu. it had held since last spring and the 24,000,000 bu. it had taken up "to strengthen soft spots" from time to time during the past two months. The total of all the Federal wheat holdings was now about 104,000,000 bu. The purchase price had been approximately $100,000,000. The market value was about...
This proposal had a significance deeper than the mere transfer of functions. The Public Health Service in recent years has become more and more important in the Government. Last spring it was strengthened by the creation of the National Institute of Health, which is empowered to accept private donations for research. The medical profession hopes that it will become a department of public health with its chief in the President's Cabinet. In Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, a doctor, other doctors believe they have a powerful advocate...