Fish's $25,000

Tall, loudmouthed Congressman Ham Fish, New York's gift to the isolationist cause, has some explaining to do this week. He must tell the stony, fact-minded Internal Revenue Bureau why he did not include in his 1939 income tax return a cool $25,000 he got from Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, the bemedaled millionaire dictator of the Dominican Republic.

Story of the $25,000 was cracked by the Washington Post's ace newshawk Dillard Stokes* just five days before this week's New York primary election, in which Ham Fish faced the most serious opposition of his...

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