Word: attached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slippery spy was John Jacob Napp, who kept a Buenos Aires waterfront saloon. Arrested, he sang on his boss as well as his subordinates (TIME, Dec. 28) and last week furnished Argentina's Supreme Court with evidence necessary to open legal proceedings against German Naval Attaché Captain Dietrich Niebuhr. At the request of the Court, the Foreign Office demanded that the German Embassy waive Niebuhr's diplomatic immunity and permit him to stand trial...
Federal police, acting at last on information documented in a U.S. State Department memorandum, grabbed 38 suspected Nazi agents. The catch included a deep-sea diver who had volunteered to attach time bombs to the keels of Allied ships in Buenos Aires harbor. His activities and those of other agents, including a Swiss and Paraguayan, pointed to the German Embassy, and in particular to Naval Attaché Captain Dietrich Niebuhr...
...Mohammed Ali Jinnah toured the great Province of Punjab. A high British official riding Jinnah's train was pleased to note that, at station after station, the musicians played God Save the King. When he mentioned his pleasure to an Indian friend, the friend remarked: "Don't attach any political importance to that. They don't know how to play anything else...
...that this did not irritate the Administration, they decided to go even farther. Last week they subjected the bill to every sort of treatment of which they are capable: that is, all except honest consideration of its merits. But for the objections of a single Congressman, an attempt to attach a completely irrelevant rider for-bidding the $25,000 ceiling on incomes would have been successful...
Under such a plan Army, Navy, Maritime Commission and Lend-Lease' would attach to their contracts warrants for specific quantities of scarce materials each month and the sum total of all the warrants cannot total more than the scarce materials the Production Requirements Committee allocates to each service. Each month these warrants would be returned to WPB and, if they added up to more steel, copper, etc. than the Requirements Committee had allocated, WPB would order the guilty services to cut their production schedules. WPB will thus be a central score keeper without trying to be the central scheduler...