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Back in the cabin, pretty Hostess Vina K. Ferguson moved up & down the aisle, settling the passengers for the night. She checked the seating list. The bald, bespectacled Frenchman nodding in his seat was Pierre N. Dreyfus, son of the late Captain Alfred Dreyfus whose false conviction for treason to France outraged the world 52 years ago. The older man was Herman Koegel, native of Rudnik, Poland. In New York his wife and daughter waited for their first reunion since the Gestapo snatched him from them and his small business in Köpenick, Germany, one night...
...committee listened attentively, while Bilbo mangled a cigar. Then Michigan's Homer Ferguson, a relentless inquisitor, switched his approach. He asked Terry what he had done with the $15,000 given him by New York radical Simon Liberman for use against Bilbo in Mississippi's Democratic primary last July. Abruptly, Terry refused to answer and the committee cited him for contempt...
After he had denied or explained everything, Senator Bilbo asked the committee if it had any further questions. Icy-voiced Senator Ferguson had one: Did the witness know that it was against the law for political candidates to accept campaign contributions from Government contractors...
Bilbo, who up to that moment had -"Living in mud." maintained that the committee had no legal goods on him, wilted noticeably and croaked that nothing had come out of the Government's purse. "It all came out of the Government," roared Ferguson...
Capitol police moved in, warded off Collins and assisted Gandy to his feet. On motion of Senator Ferguson (R-Mich), the Senate War Investigating Subcommittee then recessed the hearing...