Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murphy turned and pointed to the Government table. There, side by side, were the Woodstock typewriter, copies of the State Department documents which Chambers said Hiss had delivered to him, and the trial's testimony in four green-bound volumes. "There are the three solid witnesses in this case...
Jam on the Face. There were, he continued, three uncontradicted facts: 1) that Chambers had in his possession copies of secret State Department documents; 2) that these documents were all dated in the first three months of 1938; 3) that all but one of the typed documents were copied on...
The Hisses had said that in 1937 they had given it to Pat Catlett, son of their Negro maid. Well, then, how did State Department documents get typed on it in 1938? "The Catletts didn't know how to type. And the Catletts didn't know Chambers."
Washington showed no sign of reactivating its China policy. In fact, the Truman Administration never had a determined policy aimed at stopping communism in China. Its loudest alibi has been that Chiang Kai-shek was a liability. This may be true today, partly as a result of ineffective U.S. policy...
The construction industry was coming back to life. In June, the Department of Commerce reported, total new construction topped the June 1948 figure by $294,000,000; for the first half of 1949, it stood at $8,453,000,00, an alltime record.