Word: dictagraph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shouted, "here's a mike." It was attached by safety pin to the drape. Fawcett men traced the wires to a room three stories above. The spy had fled, hearing all was discovered, he had paused only long enough to cut his end of the dictagraph loose, grab his hat and coat. Behind him he left luggage, laundry, razor, expense account, unpaid bill. He was registered "J. P. Wriegel, 5 East 34th Street, New York," which is the B. Altman Department Store...
Last week in Louisville, Joseph P. Wiegers, son-in-law of Bernarr Macfadden and Macfadden Publications chief of promotion-publicity was indicted for criminal conspiracy on charges of using a dictagraph to steal trade secrets. Most embarrassed U.S. publisher was Macfadden Publications (True Story, et al.), which last February ousted Bernarr Macfadden, promised to employ "new policies" after cleaning up a big watered-circulation scandal (TIME...
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