Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Wiseman "head of the British Secret Service in the U. S., the chief British spy in America, now associated with Otto Hermann Kahn, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. [New York bankers] was the author of an amazing secret document sent to David Lloyd George after the War. The document was saturated with hostility toward the U. S. and proposed a 'United States of Europe,' " asserted Shearer...
...document is a clumsy, absurd forgery," wired Sir William from New York...
Adolf S. Ochs, publisher of the New York Times and Col. Robert Rutherford McCorrnick of the Chicago Tribune "told their papers to shoot all my stuff," stated Shearer. The publishers denied any such orders...
Sergeant Samuel Woodfill received a decoration from the Polish Government to the joy of his fellow Hoosiers, who agree with General Pershing that he was "the greatest hero of the A. E. F.," outshining even Tennessee's potent Sergeant Alvin York...
...boiling soap and stirred it with a paddle. When Wrigley Jr.-young Wrigley then-tired of developing his muscles in this way he persuaded his father to let him sell scouring soap on the road and before long was driving through the high-grass towns of Pennsylvania, New York, and New England in a four horse team with bells on the harness. He was a good salesman. When other manufacturers cut under his father's prices he raised Wrigley scouring soap to retail at 10? instead of 3? and gave dealers an umbrella with every box they bought...