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...contrary, there was Dennetts. Dennetts originated the dairy lunch with the legend "Surpassing Coffe e" in white script on the windows, the marble-topped tables that could be swabbed off with a damp cloth, sweeping the crumbs into the customers' laps. Dennett also had his quirks and crotchets. He was excessively pious, hung framed Bible texts on the walls of his restaurants and required every employe to attend 15 minutes of morning prayers-on his time, not theirs. It was in Dennetts that those heavy coffee cakes known as "sinkers" were first served. The first of these rapid-transit...
...Childs brothers were employes of Dennett . . . they learned all the tricks and started their own chain, minus the prayers and texts...
...September 1941 Stokes heard that Prescott Dennett, chief of the "Islands for War Debts Committee," had received a summons to appear before the District of Columbia grand jury. Stokes grabbed a taxi, scooted for Dennett's office, there watched a truck being loaded with mailbags. He followed while some of the bags were delivered to the America First Committee headquarters, others to the offices of isolationist Republican Congressman "Ham" Fish. When he phoned Fish's office and got a flat denial that any of the mailbags were there, Stokes wangled his way into Fish's locker room...
Another time he obtained, by means he will not disclose, waste paper from Dennett's office and made a file of persons and organizations corresponding with Dennett. Then he rented a special mailbox, adopted the phony names of "Jefferson Breem" and "Adam Quigley," wrote Jew-baiting letters to all the names in the file. He was flooded with antiSemitic, anti-Roosevelt, isolationist literature, not only from persons to whom he had written, but from others as well. Soon other organizations he had never heard of had him on their mailing lists...
...such propaganda, some of which even was inserted into the Congressional Record and then mailed out as Congressional Record "reprints"; that Congressman Fish's secretary, George Hill, later jailed for perjury (TIME. March 2), was serving as handyman for a propaganda ring managed by George Sylvester Viereck and Dennett...