Word: westricks
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Westrick's address is the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. TIME tried to describe the line in which he was interested...
...Westrick's proposals are "plausible and businesslike!" We lend them five billion; they use it to buy back goods from us. Our "security" is two billion in gold that we can't use and would never see anyway, because it would remain in the vaults of the Fuhrerbank (formerly the Bank of France). And as a special concession we are graciously allowed to lower our tariffs to let subsidized Nazi exports...
...advertising copy the article on Dr. Westrick isn't bad, but most papers give the current address of an out-of-town buyer when he hits New York. Somebody slip...
Nazi Agent. The job assigned Reporter Racusin was to investigate Gerhardt Alois Westrick, suave German lawyer who once represented many U. S. firms in Germany and who went to the U. S. last April in a new role (officially commercial counselor to the German Embassy), to preach Nazi trade propaganda to his U. S. business friends (TIME, July...
Rack went to the Waldorf-Astoria where Dr. Westrick had a three-room suite. There he discovered that Dr. Westrick rarely used it, kept it simply as an office in charge of a handsome young German woman, Baroness Irmingard von Wagenheim. So Rack tried to learn where most of Dr. Westrick's phone calls came from, found that they were coming from a telephone in Scarsdale, N. Y. Up went Rack to suburban Scarsdale and did some more undercover work...