Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recommendation. The House committee handled sad-faced Frank Oppenheimer gently. When he finished his testimony, Senior Investigator Louis J. Russell told the committee that it was only fair to let the record show that General Groves knew all along that Frank Oppenheimer had been a Communist who had broken clean before he went to work on the atomic bomb. "And," added Russell, "Dr. Oppenheimer's loyalty was vouched for by an outstanding scientist." Russell didn't name the outstanding scientist to the committee, but confided it to newsmen afterwards. It was brother Robert...
...crowds which had jammed the Manhattan courtroom thinned; the jury trying Alger Hiss for perjury relaxed. After ten days of bear-pit tension, the testimony of ex-Communist-Courier Whittaker Chambers and his wife was finally complete. Hulking, flat-voiced Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy hoisted himself into a sitting position on a corner of the Government table and began a careful job of legal bricklaying-matching the "pumpkin papers" and other secret documents with the originals from which they had been copied...
...thin, bushy-haired man who wore a rumpled white shirt, a badly fitting blue suit, and thick-lensed glasses. An excited whispering broke out in the courtroom as he took the stand. He was Henry Julian Wadleigh, whom Chambers had identified as a onetime member of the Communist apparatus in Washington. Though he had refused to answer questions by the House Un-American Activities Committee on the ground that he might incriminate himself, he had obviously come to court in a mood to tell...
...spoke with a precise and confident British accent. Had he been a Communist? "I collaborated with Communists," he said, firmly, "but I was never a member of the party." Had he ever taken State Department documents and given them to "people not authorized to have them?" Briskly, the witness said he had-he had handed a briefcase full of them...
...Female Heart. She spoke clearly and calmly, in a Brooklyn accent. She was not a Communist, not a spy-simply a victim of that Victorian malady, unhappy platonic love. She had first met the Russian, Gubichev, on Labor Day weekend, 1948, in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. They found themselves eyeing the same cubist painting, had begun criticizing it and then had wandered on through the gallery together...