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...Ham Fish (from Franklin Roosevelt's district) met Trooper Hill 25 years ago on the battlefields of France. They have been thick ever since. One day last autumn a grand jury, investigating the activities of Nazi agents in the U.S., sent its agents to the Washington headquarters of an anti-British organization, the Islands For War Debts Committee, to seize eight bags of franked Congressional mail containing speeches by isolationist members of Congress. They found that George Hill had sent a House truck for the mail before they got there, had whisked it away to Ham Fish...
...week's end Churchill boarded a train, again with elaborate secrecy, relaxed in zippered grey coveralls, ordered an unrationed dinner of sherry and rare beef, an unrationed breakfast of sliced chicken, ham, bacon & eggs. Next day he showed up in snow-covered Ottawa to address a joint session of the Canadian Parliament...
Dish. Near Blanchester, Ohio, two trucks crashed. One carried ham, the other eggs...
...House, listening with marked impatience to get-right speeches by the G.O.P.'s Leader Joe Martin and Ham Fish, received with a whoop the identical Senate bill, adopted it as a substitute. The vote...
Died. John Joseph ("Jumping Jack") Jones, 67, the House of Commons' "most ejected member" (1918-40); of heart disease; in Leigh-On-Sea, England. Burly Laborite from London's tenement-jammed West Ham, he heckled contemporaries as "damned liars," "assassins." referred to Commons as "the national gas works." Ejection was Commons' method of silencing...