Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...congressional investigations of Communism went into their third week, one fact stood out in everyone's mind: someone was lying in his teeth. The someone was either handsome, 43-year-old Alger Hiss, until 1947 a top official in the State Department, or ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers, now a senior editor of TIME. By week's end, it was clear that on one vital point it was not Whittaker Chambers who was lying...
...liberal Louisville Courier-Journal (circ. 167,727) and its breadwinning sister, the afternoon Times (168,858), have two links with the good old days of fire-breathing Editor "Marse Henry" Watterson. One is their old-fashioned home on Liberty Street, where another local monopoly-the post office-once dwelt. The other is doughty, ice-blue-eyed Tom Wallace, editor of the Times, whom Marse Henry hired to get a youthful viewpoint into his crochety editorial page...
Cryptic Brevity. A native Kentuckian (born in a town called Hurricane), Tom Wallace joined the Times, at no pay, in 1900. He was 31 when Watterson made him the youngest member of the Courier-Journal editorial-page crew. Thirteen years later, when Marse Henry quit in a huff (because Owner Robert Worth Bingham came out for the League of Nations), Wallace switched to the Times as chief editorial writer. He has been there ever since, driving at dawn from his 150-acre dairy farm to fire his pungent editorial missiles through the composing room tubes...
...member of the party, he told the committee, he was a courier between headquarters in New York City and the party's Washington "apparatus," a group of Communists who occupied key observation posts in the U.S. Government. The apparatus was organized, said Chambers, by Harold Ware, a son of the Communist Party's 86-year-old veteran, Ella Reeve Bloor, and took its orders from "the head of the whole underground U.S. Communist Party"-J. Peters...
...them-John Abt (of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party), Victor Perlo (Wallace leader and onetime key worker for the War Production Board), and Charles Kramer (onetime researcher for Florida's Senator Claude Pepper and West Virginia's Harley Kilgore)-were among those previously named by Courier Elizabeth Bentley TIME, Aug. 9). Chambers had other names: Lee Pressman, onetime New Deal legal eagle, later C.I.O. counsel and currently one of Henry Wallace's left-hand men; Nathan Witt, onetime secretary for the National Labor Relations Board; Henry Collins (ex-Agriculture Department); Donald Hiss, who left the State...