Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three days at sea, the 16,000-ton Polish motorship Batory radioed a routine passenger count back to New York. It ended, ". . . additional, one stowaway, first-class passage paid." As required by law, the Gdynia America Line, operators of the vessel, forwarded the message to U.S. Immigration officials...
...Manhattan apartment in which Eisler had been living while appealing two jail sentences-one for contempt of Congress, another for falsifying an application for an exit permit. Eisler was gone. The Department of Justice was not only red-faced, but flabbergasted. The little man had been trying to get back to Germany ever since publicity had ruined his effectiveness in the U.S. in 1946. (The U.S. preferred to jail him rather than let him loose to raise trouble in Berlin...
...paid for his passage, b) had broken no British laws, c) was under the protection of the Polish flag, and d) had been assured the right of asylum when the ship reached Communist-dominated Poland. Faced with these arguments, the boarding party retreated. Three hours later it was back., This time the Scotland Yard man not only had a warrant for Eisler's arrest but also a tough cablegram from the U.S. State Department. Its gist: the U.S. might seize the vessel, and kick the Gdynia America Line out of New York if the captain didn't listen...
Frank Hague had left his rococo Miami Beach winter home to rush back to Jersey City and take a hand in a city election. Defeat was in the wind. His stooge and nephew, Frank Hague Eggers, was on the run. Eggers, who had succeeded aging uncle Frank as mayor two years before, and four other Hague city commissioners were facing a well-heeled and powerful opposition which was determined to throw them out. The man in the high collar, who admits to 73 but is probably past 75, was fighting for political survival...
Kenny lost no time striking back. He whipped together a fusion "Freedom Ticket": himself, three other Democrats and one Republican. They spent money lavishly. Kenny, small, dark, quietly confident, was himself a wealthy man, owner of a trucking business. Organized labor, civic groups, even suddenly hardy souls in the courthouse and city hall flocked to their side. Kenny had powerful connections. In Kenny's office on election night, listening to the returns, sat the Teamsters' czar, Dave Beck...