Word: economist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Before long, he was sneering publicly at Robert A. Taft, telling him haughtily in a session of the Senate Banking Committee that a certain monetary matter was beyond Taft's "knowledge and competence." He was telling big people what to do: he bullied Lord Keynes, the famed British economist. As a result of White's maneuvering, Winston Churchill unhappily put his "W.S.C." on a plan for postwar Europe which, if it had been carried out, might have resulted in the domination of Europe by Russia. He built a sort of substitute State Department in the U.S. Treasury...
...Waterbug." Harry Dexter White was plucked out of Appleton and taken to Washington in June 1934 by Professor Jacob Viner, the internationally known economist, then a Treasury official. White went to the capital only for a summer assignment: to study the gold standard and international trade. By fall he had settled down to a long career in the Treasury-and an interesting career it was. He was not a great economist. His specialty was international payments, which does not require much theoretical ability but does pose intricate problems, as chess does. In the 1930s, White wrote some rather original memoranda...
This gave some staff members an idea. If the boss thought that technique worked so well, maybe it would work on him. They tried it, and work it did. When an employee would tell him that he was a greater economist than Britain's Lord Keynes, the man White envied most, White would preen himself. The Communists, too, learned that White could be flattered. Their technique was revealed when a baffled Washington carpenter named Harry White received a container of caviar, then a case of vodka, and then an engraved invitation to a social occasion at the Soviet embassy...
...economist, Ullmann rose rapidly in White's division, partly by using White's technique of flattery on White. At one time Ullmann used to pick White up in the morning and drive him home at night, going three or four miles out of his way to do so. Ullmann's hobby was photography. He once advised an associate to buy an Exakta camera because it had an attachment that was most useful in photographing documents. Ullmann shared a house with Nathan Gregory Silvermaster. named by Elizabeth Bentley as the head of a Communist spy ring. Silvermaster...
...Moscow. Chambers named Glasser as the Soviet agent assigned to "control" White and make him turn over to the Communists "everything of importance that came into his hands." Glasser resigned from Treasury in December 1947, was recommended by Dean Acheson and Treasury Secretary John Snyder for a place as economist with the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds in New York. He left this job, after refusing to testify as to Communist espionage...