Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alfred F. Reilly, a cigaret lighter manufacturer, who had lost two patent case decisions in District Court, said he paid a total of $39,850 to the Judge's friend, William J. Fallen, who had already pleaded guilty to being Manton's "bag-man." During the payments Judge Manton reversed the unfavorable District Court decisions...
...drinking whiskey neat. Surrounded by reporters and photographers, he smiled nervously, praised the skyline in guttural English, tried to explain that he was in the U. S. to pay a debt. Before he could finish his explanation Army officers whisked him away to forbidding old Castle William on Governor's Island, where he was given a pair of olive-drab dungarees to replace his double-breasted suit. For the second time in his life Grover Cleveland Bergdoll (as Prisoner 289) wore a uniform-the prison uniform-of the U. S. Army...
Gesture. Bigger news was that the British Government, after weeks of dickering at London and Geneva, had virtually said "Yes" to the Soviet terms for a big, ironclad Stop Hitler alliance between Britain, France and Soviet Russia. Soon afterwards in Moscow, able, lively British Ambassador Sir William Seeds went to the Kremlin to present his Government's views to Premier Viacheslav Molotov, also Foreign Commissar since the retirement last month of the veteran Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff...
...William and Comrade Molotov conferred for an hour, at the end of which the Foreign Commissar said he would transmit the British note to his Government, i.e., Joseph Stalin. In Nazi circles, meanwhile, hints were circulated of an impending German, not British, understanding with the Soviets, and there were inspired ghoulish stories that the Communists had proposed to the Nazis a partition of Poland. But while Comrade Stalin maintained an enigmatic silence the British were taking it for granted that the British-French-Russian alliance was in the bag. They even announced that Kliment Voroshilov, top-ranking Soviet General, friend...
...complete list of members of the new Council is as follows: Henry A. Burgess '40, Blair Clark '40, William C. Coleman '40, Mason Fernald '40, Theodore L. Hazlett '40, Thomas V. Healey '40, Frederick Holdworth, Jr. '40 Ward MacL. Hussey '40, James D. Lightbody '40, Douglas Mercer '40, Phil C. Neal '40, Seth C. Crocker '41, William L. Healy '41, Robert A. James '41 Spencer A. Klaw '41, Langdon P. Marvin '41, and Homer D. Peabody...