Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought of the Reds, onetime Party-Liner Field moaned: "After what I've been through, there is no doubt of my attitude. Their method is not the Dale Carnegie method of making friends and influencing people." Was Noel Field a Communist, as testified by ex-Communist Courier Whittaker [Witness'] Chambers? Said Hermann: "I have never known whether Noel was . . ." Could Hermann explain why Noel and Herta, after doing a five-year stretch in a Hungarian prison, elected last November to stay in "asylum" in Hungary? And what about Erika, last reported to be languishing in a slave-labor...
...Bristol?" Fazzini angrily demanded. "To know who I am all you have to do is open any art publication or see who won the first prize at the international Biennale of Venice." Back in Bristol, Fazzini's blast got a homespun retort. Editorialized the Bristol Herald Courier: "He said he didn't know where Bristol is after he learned us 'hillbillies' in this 'mountain-locked community' reckoned his divine piece of Small Boy and Fawn wasn't worth the asking price of $8,500 in view of the need for other things-like...
Before a grand jury investigating the violence, Braden refused to answer any questions about his past political activities. Police who descended on Braden's own house seized more than a hundred Communist pamphlets and books (sample title: "How To Be a Good Communist"). After he was indicted, the Courier-Journal did not fire Braden but gave him a "leave of absence" with pay on the "American principle that a man is innocent until proved guilty...
Surprise Witness. While the Courier-Journal "deplored" Braden's race-relations tactics, it defended his refusal to answer questions about his political beliefs as "quite correct." Many a reader disagreed. Communism, they pointed out, has long been recognized as a criminal conspiracy, not simply a political belief...
...Louisville seamstress who had been an undercover FBI agent, testified that she had not only attended a party-cell meeting in Braden's home, but had paid her party dues to him. With that clinching evidence of Braden's Communist activity and his conviction, the Courier-Journal at long last came around to agreeing with its critics, fired Braden...