Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What? But what was the story? In two months of secret proceedings the committee had tried to find out 1) if Hughes and his wartime partner, Henry Kaiser, had used pressure to get and keep war contracts, and 2) what they had done with the $40 million the Government had given them to build war planes...
From the Senate Office Building, the would-be assassin walked quietly out into the street. Within two hours police found him, learned that he was an ex-Capitol policeman named William L. Kaiser and fetched him back to be identified by Bricker...
...shot at the Senator? Kaiser fancied that he had three very good reasons: 1) he had been fired from his policeman's job in April and a Bricker appointee had taken his place; 2) when he had been wiped out in the crash of an Ohio building & loan firm 15 years ago, the name of Ohio's then Attorney General, John Bricker, had appeared on all the papers that spelled his financial ruin; 3) Bricker had done nothing to help him get his job or his money back...
...George Sylvester Viereck, 63, war-to-war propagandist for Germany. A stout defender of Kaiser Wilhelm in War I and of Adolf Hitler in War II, poetasting Journalist Viereck in 1943 began a one-to-five-year sentence (as a German agent) in the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. Last week, having been released 18 months short of the maximum for good behavior, he was in good shape, said his lawyer, and had written a novel...
Married. Aerielle Frazer Strutt, 29, daughter of Automaker Joseph Washington Frazer (Kaiser-Frazer); and Eric Eweson, 49, Manhattan fertilizer chemist; both for the second time; in Newport...