Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helped dig up the ransom money in Hauptmann's garage, wangled samples of Hauptmann's handwriting to match with the ransom notes. When the dirigible Akron was abuilding, he grew a beard and became a laborer to detect sabotage. For his work on a white slave ring in Connecticut (40 convictions), he was advanced to the highest pay bracket for G-Men privates ($4,800 a year). He was one of three among 670 G-Men to enjoy the top rating "Pre-eminent...
...directing heads of this ring," dryly observed Attorney Hardy, "reside in Germany and are connected with the Government of that country. [They] paid these agents in the U. S., all of whom were of German extraction, various sums of money for furnishing certain information concerning our national defense...
...employe in the experimental section of Seversky Aircraft Corp. at Farmingdale, L. I., charged with shipping information on U. S. Army planes to Germany; Guenther Rumrich; a U. S. Army private named Erich Glaser; red-headed Johanna Hofmann, a hairdresser on the German liner Europa and messenger of the ring, charged with transmitting to their employers the secret code used by Army planes in communicating with their stations. Since the U. S., unlike Germany, does not punish espionage by death in peacetime, stiffest sentence the spies faced on any count was 20 years imprisonment...
...wife teaches physical culture, Ende has been caught like many a German painter in current confusions of German art: his painting has received the official thumbs-down that goes with inclusion in Hitler's Degenerate Art show, but he has been commissioned to do murals for Göring's air ministry...
...labor has begun, The woods with music ring...