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...stand in Washington, called there to explain his relations with George Sylvester Viereck, veteran Nazi propaganda agent. Viereck was on trial, charged with failing to tell the State Department all about his activities. One Government witness was George Hill, World War I buddy and for some 20 years office clerk to Ham Fish. Because he had once denied knowing Agent Viereck, Hill himself was tried for perjury a few weeks ago, had been sentenced to two-to-six years in jail. He took it like a man who was loyally suppressing a big secret. But in court last week, Hill...
...Carl Johnson, railway clerk in Minneapolis: "MacArthur should be made head of the whole shebang-Army, Navy, Air Force...
Onetime law clerk, piano salesman, magician and Baltimore reporter, Editor Oursler went to work for Macfadden in 1921, two weeks later was left in charge while Macfadden took a vacation. Thereafter Editor Oursler sat permanently on Macfadden's right. He shuffled staffs', set up and knocked down magazines, started that ill-fated and ill-smelling Macfadden tabloid, the New York Graphic...
When President Conant visited England last year on a special scientific mission, he was received by the Mayor and Council of Southwark, and invested with the Freedom of the Borough. The Mayor and Town Clerk of the Borough attended the Tercentenary celebration here...
...sent to you with the cordial good wishes of the Council and of the people of this Borough, and with pleasant memories of your personal visit here, which still further strengthened the bond between the Borough of Southwark and your great country. Yours sincerely, D. T. Griffiths Town Clerk...