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...Dear Herr Erhard." Erhard had the sympathy of a growing number of Christian Democratic Party politicos, who were muttering openly against der Alte's highhanded rule. The national deputy chairman of the party, Kai-Uwe von Hassel. Minister-President of Schleswig Holstein, demanded that Adenauer call a special meeting of the party's highest committee, indicating that he would throw his support behind Erhard in a showdown...
Expert Witness. In Los Angeles, when a holdup man handcuffed Tailor Manuel Hassel and walked off with three pairs of trousers, three pairs of socks and $60 in cash, Hassel refused to panic, later supplied police with the bandit's weight, coat size, waist measurement, shoe and sock sizes...
...immunizing injections to thousands of Chinese. U.S. doctors have tried to stop the local practice of bleeding, which reduces body fluids already depleted by the disease. (All U.S. troops and officials going to potential cholera areas are immunized and none have caught cholera in Chungking. The Norwegian ambassador, Alf Hassel, caught it, but is recovering.) UNRRA dispatched seven experts, tons of water-purifying and other equipment to Chungking...
Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler used to be a Bowery pickpocket. From thieving, petty assaults and a stretch in Sing Sing he stepped up into the real estate business. For partners he had a pair of plug-uglies named Max Hassel and Max Greenberg. His real estate business served as a cloak for bigtime bootlegging in New Jersey. By 1931 the Wexler breweries at Paterson and Union City were returning profits at the rate of $2,277,000 per year. 'Legger Wexler bought $10 shirts, rode in limousines, kept an elaborate apartment with three master bedrooms, a library, a living...
...stand in his own defense Wexler pictured himself as a poor man. He was, he said, only a small cog in a big wheel. His real bosses had been Hassel and Greenberg who gave him a modest allowance, supplied limousines to "keep up the front." He owned no breweries, knew little about the beer racket, and nothing at all about New York gang murders. When Prosecutor Dewey called his testimony a lie, Wexler wept...