Tag: July 1943
Subsidy Scandal Sinks Rollback Plan
In a shocking move that has left many reeling, a Senate and House conference committee has dealt a devastating blow to the administration’s plans to roll back retail food prices in Browning, Montana. The drastic revision of the administration’s subsidy program, indicated by the committee’s action, effectively kills the present rollback of butter and meat…
Rita Hayworth, Ponzi Scheme, California 2020
In 1943, the Western Newspaper Union released a shocking report about the Cover Girls, a group of models working for the popular magazine starring Rita Hayworth. What seemed like a benevolent gesture – each model contributing a dollar a week for 13 weeks to a career starter fund – was, in reality, a Ponzi scheme.…
Army Officers Embroiled in Controversy, Washington D.C., 1943
In a shocking turn of events, two high-ranking officers from the 5th District of Washington D.C. found themselves at the center of a controversy that would shake the very foundations of the U.S. military. Colonel Hugh J. Knerr, a native of Portland, Oregon, had been reprimanded by Secretary of War Henry Stimson for publicly criticizing…
Max Stephan Sentenced to Life for Treason, Milan MI, 1943
Max Stephan, a notorious traitor to his adopted country, narrowly escaped the hangman’s noose, but not without suffering a fate worse than death. After boasting that Germany would never let him hang, Stephan was left to face the music alone when the nation he sought to serve abandoned him. The German-American Bund, which he was…
