Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the spy game follows a certain international routine, diplomatic Washington and Tokyo both professed blank ignorance of the whole affair. Secretary of State Hull said that all he knew about the matter was what he had read in the newspapers. Purred Navy Minister Osami Nagano in Tokyo: "In America, as in other countries, there are a few worthless individuals who try to obtain money from foreigners for supposedly valuable secret information, but we can't believe any Japanese officer attempted to use such persons...
...North Carolina countryside a firm belief that Peter Stuart Ney had actually been the Marshal of France. Amateur historians delved into the matter, wrote earnest monographs and pamphlets. Their explanation: Marshal Ney's firing squad was composed of his old comrades-in-arms. They put blank cartridges in their guns, smuggled him aboard a U. S.-bound ship at Bordeaux...
...into a dirt courtyard, strapped in a chair against a wall. A physician pressed a stethoscope to his heart, then pinned a red target with a yellow bulls-eye over it. Green's executioners stood 26 ft. away across the court, their guns, of which one contained a blank cartridge, poked through slits in the screen that hid their identity. At the Sheriff's signal, they fired, and Delbert Green's head jerked skyward, the crucifix dropped in the dirt. Physicians said that he died instantly...
...possible 20-year prison sentence instead of the death which might be his if the nation were at war. As for Toshio Miyazaki, the State Department merely announced that it had served no representations on Japan. Playing up to their part in the elaborate diplomatic game which calls for blank official ignorance about the whole business of spies and spying, Imperial Navy officials in Tokyo professed themselves eager to help the U. S. if they could, readily admitted that their roster included a Lieutenant Commander Toshio Miyazaki who was "in America a few years ago as an attache...
...Manhattan saloon, thirsty Peter Gallagher borrowed $10 from the bartender, left $450 of Bonus bonds as collateral, woke up in a hallway next morning, his mind a total blank...