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Word: eglin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...value which his foreign employer put on Mr. Rumrich was his salary: $50 a month. But he had cherished at least one melodramatic and incredible plan, which his superiors prudently quashed before he had a chance to try it. It was to lure Colonel Henry W. T. Eglin from his post with the 62nd Coast Artillery at Fort Totten, N. Y. to a Manhattan hotel, where he would have been induced, either by plump Fraulein Hofmann or by violence, to surrender certain "secret mobilization plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Espionage | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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