Word: wiegand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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False Ring. In Chicago, investigators of the theft of a diamond ring quizzed Ann Wiegand, who talked too fast, let the ring drop out of her mouth...
Died. Grace Marguerite Lethbridge, Lady Hay-Drummond-Hay, 50, peacetime British aviatrix, wartime Girl Friday (through Jap captivity in Manila) to Hearst's aged (72), No. 1 Foreign Correspondent Karl H. von Wiegand; of coronary thrombosis ; in Manhattan...
...Wiegand still had his old facility for telling readers what Mr. Hearst wants them to think. Last week he went even further than Mr. Hearst's unsubtle editorialists usually go, in portraying Russia as America's real enemy, and implying that Germany's defeat would be bad news for the U.S. Von Wiegand cabled from Madrid...
...days when it was proper for U.S. newsmen to be on good terms with Adolf Hitler, William Randolph Hearst's high-strung, highly paid and highly touted Karl H. von Wiegand led the pack. Publicity handouts called him the "personal acquaintance of Chancellor Adolf Hitler for more than 17 years [who] has had more interviews and discussions with the German Chancellor than any other American. . . ." When Hitler swept across France in 1940, Von Wiegand, with his thick spectacles and his gold-handled walking stick, was flown by the Germans to Paris...
According to Correspondent von Wiegand, Marshal of the Reich Göring was not only surprised but irritated that the U. S. should have the slightest anxiety about Germany. Said the Marshal...