Word: berger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other names and other activities. As Hans Berger he wrote articles for the Daily Worker. As Julius Eisman he made frequent visits to the Manhattan offices of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee-a Communist front organization which had duped Bennett Cerf, Charles BOyer, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and many another big name into becoming its sponsors. The Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee gave him monthly checks for $150. By means of the party grapevine, he was in touch with Samuel Kogan, alias Carr, a member of Canada's Communist atomic spy ring...
...Meyer Berger found George Teese, a New York Central engineer who owns a 1937 Packard, at home in Harmon on Hudson, N. Y.: "George and his wife, Rita, have a centrally heated, spotless, well-furnished six-room apartment. The Teeses don't save much . . . with prices as they are, but they live well ... a roast every day since the meat shortage ended. This year George has averaged about $600 a month. 'It's a strain, usually 16 hours a day, but a man would be a fool or a loafer not to get it while...
...Communist, he said, but a German one, who had taken no part in the U.S. party's business. He was just a writer for something called the German-American. He had helped out on a book, The Lesson of Germany. He often used the pen name Hans Berger...
Gerhart Eisler-Berger has the background and the intellectual equipment for the role of The Brain. He and sister Ruth were the children of a Viennese scholar-philosopher. Gerhart was one of the founders of Austria's Communist Party. In Germany, in the early '20s, he and sister Ruth were at the top of opposing Red factions-she the flamboyant leader of the violent revolutionaries, he the quiet theoretician of the "reconcilers...
...TIME'S picture editor a dunce cap for confusing Feed Man Berger with Meat Man Cohn...