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...against the State Department stand or fall on Professor Owen Lattimore of Johns Hopkins University. Again last week Lattimore took the stand in rebuttal, there showed himself a match for McCarthy-or the Daily Worker-in the technique of the vituperative smear. McCarthy, he said, was a "professional character assassin," Budenz "... a twisted and malignant personality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Silly Numbers Game | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...ridden government?' Surely you cannot deny that many men were told to go into Modena who had no legitimate business there . . ." The chamber exploded with cheers and boos. Togliatti cast aside his blue-serge-suit respectability, leaped to his feet, bellowed "Liar!" Other Communists surged up crying "Murderer! Assassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Brawl | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...Page One banner in the New York Daily News screamed: HUNT RED GOON IN UAW BOMBING. Inside, in a four-column, copyrighted exclusive, Reporter Jack Tur-cott put the finger on a mysterious assassin who was the "nation's No. i suspect" in the attempted dynamiting of Walter Reuther's union headquarters in Detroit (TIME, Jan. 2). Police in 48 states, wrote Turcott, were hunting one Paul F. Kassay, described by the News as a "Moscow-trained saboteur" and a "Communist fanatic . . . and avowed party hatchet man" who has been "at large" since another sabotage attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trial & Error | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...When a henchman gets out of line, Stark's actions recall a dozen gangster movies: backed by a tiny, shifty-faced gunman, he props his feet on the table, snarls from the side of his mouth and turns his victim into quaking jelly; filled with lead from an assassin's revolver, Stark babbles improbable curtain lines that too carefully-dear up any audience doubt as to his power-mad aims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...hanging the assassin," said Gandhi's old newspaper Harijan, "there is something which positively takes away from the glory of the Mahatma . . . Granting of life to murderers . . . would be an act . . . of which only a government trained by Gandhi might dream of doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Retribution | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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