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Latest and most vocal are Representative Paul A. McCarthy and Court Clerk Thomas H. Dorgan who, not content with presenting a bill to outlaw the Communist party in Massachusetts, went gunning on April 2 for "reducators." They produced a bill to "instruct the presidents of the several colleges and schools in the Commonwealth to expel communists or communist sympathizers from their teaching staffs.' It threatens delinquent colleges with the loss of their charters...
...Wayne Clark Williams, was also running an illegal racket on the side-accepting bribes from Chinese seeking visas to enter the U.S. Williams, a college graduate (North Carolina) who served in the Army for three years during World War II, reportedly confessed that in his 30 months as visa clerk for the Hong Kong consulate, he had collected about $10,000 in bribes in return for visas, usually in "fees" up to $200 above the small official U.S. visa fee. Visa seekers who did not come across with the bribe were kept waiting for as long as two years...
Died. Eugene Bouton, 100, whose life as high-school educator and tax board clerk was brightened by his claim to distinction as Yale's oldest son (class of '75); in Bloomfield...
Behind him was a bright, strange and blasted career, begun with great promise: he had been law clerk to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, lawyer in the New Deal, an assistant in the State Department, and, for a moment of front-page eminence, secretary general to the San Francisco founding convention of the United Nations. But he had never been so noteworthy in his public life as he had in his ultimate disgrace, when ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers exposed Hiss's treason...
Moron, the Right Bower. But the key man was big, beefy James J. Moran, a jaunty, florid, Irish-politician type. Once a court clerk, Moran had long been Wil liam O'Dwyer's political right bower. As O'Dwyer rose, so did Moran. When O'Dwyer became mayor, he made Moran first deputy fire commissioner and let it be known that all things political were to be "cleared with Jim Moran." As a last act, the departing mayor had appointed him to his lifetime $15,000-a-year job as a city water commissioner...