Word: auge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your article, "The Pink Facade" [TIME, Aug. 2], on the Communist puppet show in Philadelphia should be required reading for every American. TIME presented the real news of the Progressive Party's convention in telling how naive a group of sincere Americans can be in the face of Communist management...
...Your Aug. 2 Miscellany item about Al G. Moriarty (police had been looking for him for two years, found and arrested him when he announced his candidacy for the general assembly) failed to explain Moriarty's offense: since May 1946 he had received 14 tickets for illegal parking and had ignored them all. Having now paid a fine of $42, he is free and clear to pursue his political career...
...Henry Wallace's Progressive Party), Victor Perlo (Wallace leader and onetime key worker for the War Production Board), and Charles Kramer (onetime researcher for Florida's Senator Claude Pepper and West Virginia's Harley Kilgore)-were among those previously named by Courier Elizabeth Bentley TIME, Aug. 9). Chambers had other names: Lee Pressman, onetime New Deal legal eagle, later C.I.O. counsel and currently one of Henry Wallace's left-hand men; Nathan Witt, onetime secretary for the National Labor Relations Board; Henry Collins (ex-Agriculture Department); Donald Hiss, who left the State Department...
...More than a hundred Protestant clergymen, speaking through the National Council Against Conscription, picked Sunday, Aug. 22 (a week before draft registration) as a day "of mourning and repentance" and the time to start campaigning for draft repeal...
...Department of Agriculture computed one item in the cost of keeping the nation's farmers happy. In the past five years, it announced last week, the Government has taken a $170 million loss on 196 million bushels of surplus potatoes (TIME, Aug. 9). Because the 80th Congress extended price support levels of potatoes until the whole 1948 crop was marketed, the Government was now buying potatoes at the rate of $4,000,000 a week...