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...priced to yield $20,000 profit apiece, half of which was to go to Elliott or his firm. Salesman Roosevelt showed a model of the planes (Lockheed "Electras" modified for easy conversion to military use) to a delegation of Russian aeronautic engineers. Roosevelt, Fokker & friends worked up a telegraphic code in which the President was "Rochelle," Elliott "New Rochelle," military "industrial," Amtorg Trading Corp. "Ruyork," Moscow "Mosely" etc. After the Russians balked at the price (nearly $58,000 per plane, without motors, etc.), the contract was canceled though Elliott Roosevelt was allowed to retain the first $5,000 down payment...
...women in his convention telegram, it seemed improbable that Joe Tipaldo would be employed in the Republican campaign. Already enlisted as a GOP speaker, however, was a more famed New Deal martyr, Fred C. Perkins of York, Pa. Because he could not pay workers in his battery plant NRA code wages, the big, hairy-fisted onetime Cornell footballer went to jail for 18 days, was fined $1,500, became the nation's prime symbol of the "little man" oppressed by NRA (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934 et seq.). Since then the Perkins' battery business has gone steadily downhill...
Trotsky's son Syedov was called a money-passer. One of the prisoners said the conspirators in Moscow had given him to be carried to Syedov Trotsky in Berlin a copy of The Arabian Nights. "It served in some way which I do not remember as a secret code book," finished up Prisoner Holzmann, scratching his head with a puzzled...
...Civil Service, above all, is to be congratulated. It will not suffer in the end for this ruthless exposure of how high is its standard and rigorous its code...
...Posing as a visitor from another crew, he would board warships at the San Pedro and San Diego bases. With the disarming air of an ambitious country boy he would then ask eager questions about gunnery data, technical innovations, maneuvers. He frequently managed to slip off by himself, filch code books, signal books, photographs, blueprints, plans, maps, models. He made friends easily, often took gunners and technicians out on parties. What he learned found its way to Toshio Miyazaki, who returned regular payments from his large account in San Francisco's Yokohama Specie Bank...