Word: dexterousness
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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...
After Stanford, White went to Harvard, where he worked toward his philosophy doctorate. Not until he got it, apparently, did Harry Dexter White become proud of his record. The listing he prepared for Who's Who starts with the Harvard degree, ignoring all of his life before that. He is remembered as a brilliant, bumptious student and instructor at Harvard, assertive and quick to argue. After he got his doctorate in 1930, he continued teaching economics at Harvard and also taught at Boston's Simmons College. But he felt he was not going any place at Harvard...
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...