Word: go-between
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They were accused of having been in cahoots with Harry Gold, the go-between who passed Traitor Fuchs's secrets on to Russia, in giving false testimony to a grand jury...
...details were being worked out, Winchell, always a shrewd showman, broadcast two more "appeals" to Benedict Macri to give up. Last week the columnist told the New York Mirror to get its story and Page One headlines ready. But twice Benedict Macri broke his date with Winchell. Apologized a go-between: "Please, Mr. Winchell, we got him in such a deep freeze that it's not easy to dig him up." Then, on his radio broadcast last week, Winchell finished his buildup; he announced that he would turn Benedict Macri in to the cops that very night. About...
...life in London's Wormwood Scrubs prison (where he was set to work sewing mail sacks) had put him in a mood to talk, and he did his best to describe a man to whom he had turned over documents and verbal messages in the U.S. The go-between, he said, was a short, stocky, soft-spoken fellow with Slavic features, an oval face and a penchant for pin-striped suits. His conversation reflected scientific training. But what was his name? Where did he live? What was his background? Fuchs had never found...
Emperor Hirohito was anxious to do everything in accordance with Japan's new democracy-or at least in compromise with it. Instead of arranging his second daughter's marriage through a go-between in the time-honored way, he sent his frock-coated vice chief chamberlain directly to the bridegroom-elect. "Their Majesties, the Emperor and Empress," hissed the imperial emissary, bowing low, "would like to have their daughter married to Honorable Takatsukasa. What are his feelings on the subject?" "I accept," said 26-year-old Toshimichi Takatsukasa, a $20-a-month clerk in the Traffic Museum, bowing...
When World War II broke out, he was worth an estimated $50 to $100 million, and he had great & good friends on both sides. For Old Friend Hermann Göring, he acted as a go-between in the Russo-Finnish war and helped work out a truce. For Old Friend Edward, Duke of Windsor, he provided his 320-ft. yacht Southern Cross (once owned by Howard Hughes) to take the Duchess from Nassau to Florida to have an infected tooth removed...