Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accused who flatly denied any connection with a Communist plot to infiltrate the U.S. Government was Harry Dexter White, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. When he appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee a fortnight ago (TIME, Aug. 23), he admitted knowing many of the others also named by ex-Communists Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers. But he denied that he had ever been a Communist...
Shortly after he had finished testifying before Congress, suffering from a bad heart, Harry White left Washington for a rest on his New Hampshire farm. He had just arrived there when he was stricken by another heart attack. Two days later, death came to Harry Dexter White...
...Charming Fellow." When round-faced Harry Dexter White, onetime Assistant Treasury Secretary, took the stand, more flat contradictions went into the record. He said that he did not know Elizabeth Bentley or Whittaker Chambers (TIME, Aug. 16). As to Chambers' story that he had pleaded with White to break away from the Communist party line: "Something I would remember very definitely would be if a gentleman met me and tried to convince me not to go into or not to leave a Communist ring. That I would have remembered. That...
...added another once-big name to her list of informants: Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, one of the architects of the World Bank. Like Currie, said Miss Bentley, Harry White helped put Communists in strategic offices and supplied information to her through Silvermaster. She added: "Mr. White knew where it was going but preferred not to mention the fact...
...coming year, with Steven Little '49, of Winthrop House and Brookline, as his assistant and H. Bradlee Perry '50, of Winthrop House and Brookline, in charge of the Varsity 150's. Harry R. Dow III '51, of Thayer Hall and North Andover, will handle the Freshman heavies, with Philip Dexter '51, of Matthews Hall and Boston, taking the yearling...