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The Revenue Bureau is not alone in its interest. Fish's $25,000 was first discovered by a Washington grand jury-the same jury which returned a perjury indictment against Fish's secretary, George Hill, after Hill lied about helping Nazi Propagandist George Sylvester Viereck (TIME, Jan. 26...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fish's $25,000 | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

* Other recent Stokes scoops: the indictment of the "vermin press" (TIME, Aug. 3); the grand jury investigation of George Sylvester Viereck, now in prison for failing to register as a Nazi agent; the story of how mailbags were removed from the office of Prescott Dennett (now under indictment for conspiracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fish's $25,000 | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

The list included William Randolph Hearst's friend William Griffin, violently anti-British publisher of the New York Enquirer; wild-eyed, red-haired Mrs. Elizabeth (Red Network) Billing, Gerald B. Winrod, publisher of the Defender, notorious preacher of racial and religious intolerance; Prescott Freeze Dennett, organizer of the Islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Crackpot's Roundup | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

U.S. Prosecutor William Power Maloney and the Federal grand jury, who began to investigate Editor Griffin last fall, found him a slippery quarry. When they tried to subpoena back numbers of the Enquirer, Griffin said that he kept none. Last week, when Prosecutor Maloney sent officers with a warrant for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Vermin Press | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Unlike his two Congressional colleagues, lank, angular Hamilton Fish wants to stay in. Ham had hawked his brand of isolation ism far & wide; had worked hard against the President, against England; often, before Pearl Harbor, advocated a negotiated peace. Stepping out of Joachim von Ribbentrop's plane in 1939...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Two Out, One to Go | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

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