Word: vierecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York, the Nation's No. 1 isolationist: In 1939 he believed Germany's claims were "just"; in 1941 he became entangled in Nazi Agent George Sylvester Viereck's messy affairs...
...killed in a 1940 airplane crash. Mrs. Lundeen, firm of jaw and of conviction, is campaigning to vindicate her husband's bitter-end isolationism, "to travel under his banner." People who had already looked under Lundeen's banner had found there many smelly characters like George Sylvester Viereck, old Lundeen friend now serving two-to-six years in jail for his work as an agent of the Nazis. Viereck ghostwrote many a Lundeen speech...
...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). The jury plans to talk to Ham Fish again...
...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 to promote revolt in the armed forces) after a grand jury had subpoenaed them...
...when Prosecutor Maloney sent officers with a warrant for Mr. Griffin, they failed to find him, learned that he had checked out of a hospital the day before. Said Prosecutor Maloney, grimly: "He won't get away from us. Griffin, with his close friend and associate, George Sylvester Viereck, is regarded by the Government as the key man in the Nazi network in this country." Next day Mr. Griffin turned up again: his wife telegraphed the New York Times that he was back in the hospital, with a heart attack. In the hospital Editor Griffin was put under guard...