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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Fish, But Foul | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

When the jury actually did find George Hill guilty of perjury, some 20 hours later, his old friend and employer Ham Fish was far away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Fish, But Foul | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, Great Decisions | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Dish. Near Blanchester, Ohio, two trucks crashed. One carried ham, the other eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: National Ordeal | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

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