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Word: stringman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back as a spy." These jittery reports proved baseless when Correspondent Emanuel defended himself wittily before a Fascist court in which he was accused of nothing more serious than "obtaining" information of a military character. This information had been innocently posted to Bureau Chief Emanuel by a minor Italian stringman acting on his own initiative in ignorance of present drastic Italian war news curbs. Admitting that he received this letter. Correspondent Emanuel chirped at the President of the Special Tribunal for Defense of the Realm: "If I should be so disrespectful of your office as to dare to punch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Power of Hearst | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

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