Word: vierecks
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...Fish's memory went dead. The gangling, trumpet-tongued Congressman was on the witness stand in Washington, called there to explain his relations with George Sylvester Viereck, veteran Nazi propaganda agent. Viereck was on trial, charged with failing to tell the State Department all about his activities. One Government witness was George Hill, World War I buddy and for some 20 years office clerk to Ham Fish. Because he had once denied knowing Agent Viereck, Hill himself was tried for perjury a few weeks ago, had been sentenced to two-to-six years in jail. He took it like...
...served as handy man of a propaganda ring managed by Viereck and Prescott Dennett, Washington publicist...
...Fish had introduced him to Viereck, after Fish had held a long conference with the Nazi agent in Fish's private office...
...Viereck then instructed him to mail out, under frank of Minnesota's late Senator Ernest Lundeen, copies of an isolationist speech Lundeen made in the Senate...
...Fish provided Viereck with a mailing list of some 100,000 names...