Word: crosleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Triplets. With its pint-sized auto, Crosley Motors, Inc. was turning in a jug-sized performance. President Powel Crosley Jr. reported that in twelve months sales ($25,391,627) had more than doubled, net earnings ($1,496,854) had tripled...
...also could not testify with absolute finality about the disposition of his 1929 model A Ford roadster. Chambers had testified that the car had been turned over by Hiss to the Communist Party for the use of some hard-up organizer. Hiss said he had turned it over to "Crosley" in 1935. But the committee showed Hiss a transfer of the Ford's ownership to one William Rosen executed almost a year later...
...Hiss ever got the car back from "Crosley"? He could not remember if "Crosley" had kept it or if it "came back" to him. Hiss agreed that the signature on the photostat of the transfer looked like his, but he still had no memory of the transaction...
Under protracted questioning, Hiss could offer no additional evidence to back up his contention that Chambers was "Crosley." He was unable to name anyone but his wife who had ever seen them together or anyone who knew Chambers as "Crosley." But he had some angry counter-questions of his own. He wanted the committee to ask Chambers if he had ever been treated for a mental illness. He also dared Chambers to come out from behind the shield of congressional immunity, and make his accusations again, so that Hiss could sue for slander or libel...
...committee proved that if there ever was a free-lancer named George Crosley, he had an extremely tough time of it. A search of the Library of Congress' extensive catalogues showed that one G. Crosley had had a book, of poems published in 1905 (when Chambers was four years old) and one G. E. Crosley, a medical doctor, had written a pamphlet on ultraviolet light in 1936. There was no record of a "George Crosley" having broken into print any time, anywhere during Chambers' lifetime...