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...speak of democracy. We know of your treatment of the American Japanese. We know of your race riots, both north and south, 'the underhanded persecution of the Negro and the Jew. At least we Germans were not hypocritical. We did not hide our acts and persecutions under the cloak of your supposed democracy. Is all this not true? Can you truthfully scream 'propaganda...
John Carradine, Hollywood cloak-&-dagger character actor, was arrested and released on $2,000 bail after his ex-wife complained that he was about to leave California without paying up the $4,116 back alimony she says he owes...
...administration level there had been no secrets between the Americans and British. Both were still operating under SHAEF, in which British and U.S. officers were intermixed. And SHAEF had dutifully informed Russia of its policies and practices. There the exchange of information had stopped. The Russians had drawn a cloak of secrecy around their zone in eastern Germany...
Chief U.S. Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson will have three top assistants: Major General William ("Wild Bill") Donovan, head of the cloak-&-dagger OSS; U.S. Assistant Attorney General Francis M. Shea; and railway attorney Sidney S. Alderman. They have...
...useful dollar since he left the mayor's office in a hurry in 1932, just as graft investigations by Judge Samuel Seabury and Governor Franklin Roosevelt were getting uncomfortably close to him. Next week Jimmy's $20,000-a-year contract as "impartial Czar" of the cloak-&-suit industry runs out, but he already has another job, the presidency of a new phonograph-record firm. Said he last week to 1,300 fellow cloak-&-suiters dining at the Waldorf-Astoria: "I am not a candidate for mayor. I am on a good payroll now. Please leave me alone...