Word: couriered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civil war. "If there is ever a revolution in America," Ulrich used to say, "get yourself an armored train. It is the only comfortable way to go through a revolution." Pending a revolution, he taught Chambers all the wrinkles of underground work, from invisible ink to serving as a courier, to developing microfilms in the bathroom of a Gay Street apartment in Greenwich Village. In 1934 Ulrich returned to Russia. His final warning: "Remember, Bob, there are only two ways that you can really leave us: you can be shot by them or you can be shot...
Publishers of 213 U.S. newspapers, polled by Public-Relations Man Edward L. Bernays for their opinions as to the ten best dailies, nominated (in order of their preference): The New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Science Monitor, Louisville Courier-Journal, Kansas City Star, New York Herald Tribune, Chicago Daily News, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and Milwaukee Journal...
...courts and education. Among its noteworthy articles: one by Ohio's Senator John Bricker pointing out that the U.N.'s Covenant of Human Rights was full of traps for the West, and a widely reprinted piece by George Schuyler, an editor of the Negro Pittsburgh Courier, punching holes in the Communist-drawn picture of the "enslaved" American Negro...
...attractive Evelyn Trujillo, 28, was a stenographer in the Caracas offices of the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. After hours she had a more interesting job as an underground courier for Acción Democratica, the big left-of-center party that has been outlawed in Venezuela since the ruling military junta seized power three years...
...onetime senior editor of TIME, has been writing his book and working on his Maryland farm since 1950, when his testimony convicted Hiss of perjury. His story begins with an eloquent letter to his teen-aged son and daughter, who did not learn of his past as a Communist courier until the Hiss case opened with his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee. In the letter, Chambers explains to them-and to the world-why he became a Communist, why he left the party in 1938 and what the real issues were in the Hiss trials. To many...