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...pieces of fire apparatus were called late last night to a small incinerator fire on the roof of an office building across from Straus Hall. The blaze caused no damage...
Especially designed for showing experiments in chemistry, physics, and related fields, the building will house several collections of scientific apparatus--including the "philosophical apparatus" used in teaching science to students before the American Revolution...
...graduate student in economics at Columbia. When, he went to work in Washington for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in late 1933, he was assigned to a secret AAA Communist cell by Harold Ware, named by Chambers and other witnesses as the boss of the Washington Communist apparatus. Weyl, a deliberate, conservative witness, was positive that he had seen Hiss at "more than two" cell meetings while Hiss was an assistant counsel to AAA. Others in the cell, said Weyl, included Lee Pressman, John J. Abt, Victor Perlo, Nathan Witt, Charles Kramer and Henry H. Collins...
...said Weyl, the AAA cell devoted itself mostly to studies of Marxism, and was composed of hand-picked bright young men whose prospects in Government were better than average. Weyl did not know Chambers. According to Chambers' testimony, Harold Ware picked these same bright young men for his apparatus in 1936, and provided the direct link between them and J. Peters, head of the Communist underground...
...Five-Year Plan is handicapped by red tape, a reactionary attitude towards what is new, fear of responsibility, lack of discipline, laziness . . . There has developed a serious estrangement between party functionaries and the masses." Then Ulbricht announced ominously that new elections "on all levels of the party apparatus" will be held within a month...