Word: tampering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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None the less, Minister-President Göring has now been given powers to tamper with almost everything in Germany, powers so sweeping that this fact is of radical significance and a blow to laissez-faire Capitalism. Another blow was an intimation from the Minister-President that he will fix by decree on Nov. 9 the retail price in Germany of meat and meat products, including beef, pork, tallow, lard, bacon, ham and sausages...
Suspecting the scotched Reds would try to tamper with Athens' electric plant, General Metaxas moved a battleship to anchor nearby. He sent destroyers to overawe Salonika, the Greek city in which Reds are strongest. Greeks woke up to find that their walls had been freshly plastered at dawn with posters reading: "The Government measures were made necessary because the country was on the eve of an outbreak of a subversive and seditious movement fostered by Communist propaganda and aiming at disaffection in the Army and the spread of the spirit of Anarchy...
...Enquirer, Devereux copy is sacrosanct, no matter how muddled. Copy-readers never tamper with a line. Thus Enquirer readers were profoundly puzzled last week over the following paragraph...
...year-old Prosecutor Wilentz is not only a good orator and jury handler but an able politician as well. Coming from Perth Amboy in Middlesex County, however, he will have no great local influence with the jurors in Hunterdon County. Last week he charged an attempt by somebody to tamper with potential jurors by circulating a pamphlet to the effect that "Aviator's Baby Was Never Kidnapped or Murdered...
...Varney believes he can shoulder Pan American aside if he has the right politicians working for him. If he does, it will be a man-sized job. for Pan American is so deeply intrenched at home and in 32 other countries that not even President Roosevelt cared to tamper with its mail contracts...