Word: dexter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caught in a flareback of history, desperate Democrats tried with might & main to wriggle out of the Harry Dexter White scandal. Their line was different from the flat assertions of outrage ("Red herring," "I do not intend to turn my back . . .") that greeted the 1948 charges against White and Alger Hiss. This time the fact of espionage was more or less admitted. Harry Truman acknowledged that White was disloyal, and even the New Republic said: "There can be little doubt that White was guilty of the actions described by Miss Bentley.'' i.e., passed secrets to the Communists...
...Boston slum. At school his grades were not notable and hardly anyone noticed him-except the bullies. They picked on him. Even when he grew up and became a Doctor of Philosophy he had to take a job he didn't like. And then, suddenly, Harry Dexter White got his chance to show everyone how important he could...
...Harry Dexter White? How did he get his power...
Halperin's name, according to Atty. Gen. Brownell, was included in the list sent to President Truman by the FBI at the time Harry Dexter White was up for confirmation as U.S. representative on the International Monetary Fund...
...H.L.U. last spring distributed a poll on Harvard reaction to McCarthy and his methods. "An overwhelming majority disapproved of McCarthyism," Villers said, "and I'm sure that the same majority would agree with Truman's point in his Monday night speech." Monday, Truman had defended his appointment of Harry Dexter White and had attacked McCarthyism as the "big lie and the unfounded accusation...