Word: dasch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military commission which tried the saboteurs had recommended that the other two, George John Dasch and Ernest Peter Burger, get life imprisonment instead of death. They had turned informers. President Roosevelt, reviewing the commission's findings, reduced Dasch's sentence to 30 years at hard labor. (Dasch and Burger might be useful at the trials of 14 men & women accused of giving the spies shelter...
...White House made its announcement, two Army ambulances drove into the jail yard. A half-hour later the U.S. Marshal's van appeared: Dasch and Burger went off to hard labor. In the courtyard, in the drizzle, six sheeted bodies on stretchers were loaded in the ambulances-four in one, two in the other. Steel-helmeted soldiers, with bayonets and machine guns, kept a little crowd of the curious away. The ambulances swung out slowly on the wet pavement, took the bodies to the Walter Reed Hospital for autopsy...
...lawyers handled the prosecution, four the defense. Significantly, one of the saboteurs (gaunt George John Dasch) had separate counsel, leading to the speculation that he had turned state's evidence. As the evidence kept pouring in, General McCoy grew almost garrulous. He said it would be a long trial...
...years, a Chicago orchestra has held weekly rehearsals, given public concerts. Only its conductor (George Dasch, of Northwestern University) is a professional musician. Its founder was bass-playing George Lytton, president of the Hub stores. Now an orchestra of 115 Chicagoans, 25 of its players are presidents or vice presidents of businesses. A doctor plays the piccolo, a dentist the trombone, a poultry farmer the trumpet, a onetime steel puddler the oboe. A waiting list of 200 eyes the orchestra hungrily : from the list, new players are chosen when members die or cut too many rehearsals...