Word: chasanow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lewis decided to bring the case to the public's attention and with a series of nine news stories and three editorials. Lewis won dismissal of the case, the reinstatement of Chasanow, and the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. In 1963 Lewis won another Pulitzer for his Supreme Court reporting for The New York Times...
...attacks by Senator Joseph McCarthy and his House Un-American Activities Committee. There were two cases, one involving J. Robert Oppenheimer and another with John Paton Davies of the State Department, that drew nationwide publicity. But in Washington there was another case involving a minor Navy employee named Abraham Chasanow which attracted the attention of Anthony Lewis '48, a former Managing Editor of The Crimson who was working as a reporter for The Washington Daily News. Lewis was concerned about the case because Chasanow had little money to use for his defense and had been dismissed without due process. When...