Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ham in New York. Editorialists thought the issues on the banks of the Hudson were Hamilton Fish's isolationism and his pre-war pro-Axis leanings. But actually, in the beautiful home country of Fish, Roosevelt and other gentry, the issues were: 1) Franklin Roosevelt; 2) outside interference...
Story of the $25,000 was cracked by the Washington Post's ace newshawk Dillard Stokes* just five days before this week's New York primary election, in which Ham Fish faced the most serious opposition of his 22-year career as Congressman. Ham Fish snouted back: "political smear." His story: he handled the money as agent for Trujillo in some Texas oil well speculation; he lost half of it, sent the other half back...
...Washington Post recalled that Ham Fish's relations with the Caribbean dictator had taken some curious turns. In 1937 after several thousand Haitian farmers were massacred by Dictator Trujillo's soldiers on the Dominican side of the border, Ham Fish arose in Congress and said: "This is the most outrageous atrocity that has ever been perpetrated on the American continent...
Fifteen months later Ham Fish made a trip to the Dominican Republic. He stayed at the dictator's walled-in estate, ate at his lavish table, came back a changed man. When Trujillo visited the U.S., Ham Fish spoke at a dinner for him: "General, you have created a golden age for your country. . . . You will go down in history . . . as a builder greater than all the Spanish conquistadores together." Shortly thereafter the $25,000 was deposited to Ham Fish's account in a New York bank...
...interest. Fish's $25,000 was first discovered by a Washington grand jury-the same jury which returned a perjury indictment against Fish's secretary, George Hill, after Hill lied about helping Nazi Propagandist George Sylvester Viereck (TIME, Jan. 26). The jury plans to talk to Ham Fish again...