Word: tampering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia Broadcasting System wanted me to omit from the 'Prosperity Sermon.' ... I wonder if any outside pressure has been brought to bear upon the Columbia Broadcasting System by a few bigots whose minority organization figures to bulldoze the people of America and who now hope to tamper with free speech? . . . The fact still remains that they will not accept my money or my contract. . . ." Father Coughlin announced that he would continue to broadcast from Detroit over an independent hookup, thus far comprising eleven stations...
...militant Dry whose appointment in 1929 caused a political rumpus between Attorney General Mitchell and Senators Capper and Allen of that State (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929). After the verdict an investigator for the Diamond defense was seized in court, held by Judge Hopkins on charges of attempting to tamper prosecution witnesses...
...interests and the gradual sensationalization and cheapening of its news columns recently, within the outer shell of its respectable typography and make-up. It would be a pleasant boon to Bean-town if the good-natured but generally sloppy "Globe" could be prodded into over-coming its reluctance to tamper with its golden formula. It could be made into a first rate paper. And why should not the "Transcript" be chided into forsaking its snobbish contempt for the technical advances of the past quarter century in the newspaper world? In fact, would not Boston and New England profit...
Stronger than most other South American governments is that of President Carlos Ibanez, a dictator so fearless of revolution in his bailiwick that he chose last week to tamper with the drinking habits of Chileans, potent topers...
...rate change for himself, he could only approve or disapprove the rate proposed by the Tariff Commission. His failure to act in 60 days would automatically put the rate change into effect on the Commission's order. Once the new rate was in effect the President could not tamper with it without further authority from the Tariff Commission. For all practical purposes the Commission would become a tariff rate-making body...