Word: ahlefeldt
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Explorer Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, 74, who insists he beat Peary to the North Pole on April 21, 1908. Convicted in 1923 of using the mails to defraud, he was paroled in 1930. On his sick bed he was informed last week (by his Explorer Friend Ralph Shainwald von Ahlefeldt) that President Roosevelt had granted him a full pardon, restored his civil rights. Gasped Dr. Cook: "Thanks -happy," sank back into a coma...
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