Word: contactman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...small, inscrutable inner circle of Communists, who get their orders from the offices of the Cominform in Bucharest or directly from Moscow. Most notable member of this inner circle is Rudolf Slansky, secretary general of the party. Other members, according to the Times's Schmidt, are Bedrich Gemmder, contactman for the Cominform Defense Minister Dr. Alexej Cepicka, and National Security Minister Ladislav Kopriva. But Schmidt suspects it does not include President Klement Gottwald, chairman of the Communist Party, or Prime Minister Antonin Zapotocky. (While both men seem to hold undisputed authority, it has been rumored that Moscow does...
...contactman in Germany, he revealed, was his son James Wideman Lee II. Princeton, 1929, recalls "Jim" Lee as a tall, personable youth who helped edit the Daily Princetonian. Now 28, he is paid $33,000 a year for handing his father's counsel and significant U. S. newspaper clippings to I. G. Farbenindustrie, which hands them on to the German Government...
Before getting the War portfolio, Mr. Good declined the Postmaster-Generalship. Knowing politicians as he does, he did not wish to traffic in party patronage. But Mr. Hoover wanted him in his Cabinet as congressional contactman...
| 1 |