Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While a federal jury in Washington struggled over two million words of testimony in her turbulent trial for espionage, slim, dark-haired Judith Coplon, 28, curled up in a chair in the courthouse pressroom and chatted with newsmen. "Let's not talk about the trial," smiled Judy. "I'm all talked...
...months ago, however, a county grand jury got wind of the Stoker recordings. The whole story burst across every front page in town. Triumphantly released from jail for a grand jury appearance, Brenda swept in, neat and businesslike in a tailored suit and dark glasses, began to tell all. $50 per Girl. She minced no words. Ever since she had moved into the upper brackets of her profession, she said, she had been paying $50 a week to her old friend Sergeant Jackson for every girl in her employ. And, she added with a vengeful slap at her persecutor...
...insistent courage, and the Missouri Supreme Court reversed the convictions in 1941. When F.D.R. traded 50 overage destroyers to Britain, Coghlan lit into him in a hysterically isolationist editorial (Dictator Roosevelt Commits An Act of War). In 1942, during the scrap drive, Coghlan recommended that "some dark night" somebody steal the three ancient cannons in front of the Capitol at Jefferson City; when somebody did, Governor (now Senator) Forrest Donnell ordered Coghlan's arrest for larceny (he was later acquitted...
Quite as impressive as his mind-reading is Dunninger's deadpan claim to have split the atom singlehanded in 1929. He carries about with him the results of his experiments, a few dark-colored grains that look something like Sen-Sen. "This stuff could ignite the atom and send it off," he remarks casually. "It's enough to destroy the little globe called the universe." Dunninger wanted to share his spectacular discovery with the Government, but "they paid no attention to me." During the war, Dunninger tried to give the Navy a method of making battleships invisible...
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