Word: wire
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Agent Miller, a lawyer himself, said that he had sat through Judy's Washington trial last spring, where she was convicted of espionage and sentenced to prison, and heard other FBI agents testify that they had no knowledge wire tapping was used. Was he not aware, Judge Ryan asked Miller sharply, that those FBI statements were evasions? Miller's answer: at the time, he had "no personal knowledge" of wire tapping in the case...
Agent Robert J. Wirth, also a lawyer, admitted he had destroyed some wire-tap memoranda although Judy's lawyer was trying to raise the wire-tap question at Judy's first trial. At the time, explained Lawyer Wirth, he was "not familiar" with the details of the 12-year-old Supreme Court decision forbidding wiretapping evidence in federal trials...
Leathery, wire-haired Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden ran for governor of Florida and got married for the third time at 79, celebrated his 81st birthday last August by making his first parachute jump. Last week Publisher Macfadden flickered dimly in the publishing sky in which he once flared like a comet...
...been carefully polished, as a major production should be, and Director Aly Khan had rehearsed the Lausanne police and the Lausanne-Palace Hotel staff time & again. As soon as Leading Lady Rita Hayworth felt the first labor pains, Aly was to pick up a phone on a private wire and simply breathe the secret password: "Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre [Maryborough-is going to war]." At the other end, a police functionary would flash the word to the motorized cops who were standing eagerly by to escort the couple to the Mont-Choisi Clinic. Then, after...
Into Cox's job at Carnegie will go Clifford F. Hood, 55, president of American Steel & Wire of Cleveland, another Big Steel subsidiary. Hood's former job will be filled by American Steel's vice president in charge of operations, Harvey B. Jordan...