Word: bentley
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...names echoed the list of top Washington Communists which both Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley gave the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1948. Weyl's testimony, however, was in the nature of a foundation, for he was describing a period two years before the era detailed by Chambers. In 1934, 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...
...salt, take to the hustings like a born politician (he was a-Liberal M.P. for South Salford from 1906 to 1910). He turned out books at the rate of two or three a year-poems, novels, histories and essays of such diversity that, as early as 1905, E. C. Bentley felt obliged to write a protesting clerihew...
Last week another federal grand jury in New York indicted Remington again. At his first trial, the jury noted. Remington had denied that he ever passed any Government secrets to any Communist spy. Elizabeth Bentley testified that he gave documents to her, and that she was a Communist spy. Remington said he had never attended a Communist Party meeting in Knoxville. Tenn., where he worked as a TVA messenger at the age of 19. Three ex-TVA employees said he had. He said he had never paid party dues. His wife and Miss Bentley testified that he did. He said...
...three men have vigorously denied the charges which were made by Kenneth W. Colegrove, a Northwestern professor. Earlier this month, Fairbank was refused permission to enter Japan to teach there. He had been mentioned this summer before the McCarran group in testimony by Louis Budenz and Elizabeth Bentley, both former active Communists...
This was probably the result of testimony before Senator McCarran's committee investigating the Institute of Pacific Relations. There, former Communists Bentley and Budenz put together a few pieces of paper (a letter from China Fairbank allegedly delivered to an espionage ring worker, a reference to Fairbank in a party report) to give Fairbank a bona-fide party card...