Word: bittelman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defendants in the ten-month trial were second-drawer leaders of the U.S. Communist Party, including Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, member of the party's national committee; Alexander Trachtenberg and Alexander Bittelman, Russian-born party theoreticians; Pettis Perry, one of U.S. Communism's chief apostles to Harlem. They were the fourth batch of J.S. Reds to be convicted under the 1940 Smith Act. First came the 1949 marathon trial of eleven top Communist leaders that made Judge Harold Medina famous. In 1952, six lesser Red lights were convicted in Baltimore, 14 in Los Angeles. Last week upholding the Smith...