Thrush History II

According to Ward Baldwin's reminiscences in The Final Affair:

the First Council was only five men;

the early Hierarchy used Hollerith cards to maintain a central information service about professional criminals in London at the end of the nineteenth century;

the Hierarchy became international in the first twenty years of the twentieth century, partly thanks to the Great War;

the Thrush symbol first appeared on a blazer badge in Chicago in 1923;

the first and fourth decades of the twentieth century were periods of internal reorganization and of a broadening power base;

the Hierarchy profited from both sides during WWII;

the Hierarchy is information, which cannot be destroyed.

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