Word: evens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prison term would bar him from ever holding public office or practicing law again in his native state. (His lawyers did not mention that May, despite his conviction, gets a lifetime federal pension of about $3,400 a year for his 16 years in Congress.) His doctor was even more persuasive. He told the court that a prison term might actually kill old Andy...
Transfer by Order. Witness Chambers testified that the original idea of stealing State Department documents for the Communist Party was Hiss's own. Even before Hiss had begun his meteoric rise in the State Department, said Chambers in a dispassionate voice, when Hiss was still on the Nye committee, Hiss said that he had "an angle" for getting State Department documents. The Hiss career remained under the watchful eye of the Red apparatus. In 1936 Hiss had the opportunity to transfer from the Justice to the State Department. Said Chambers: "He [Hiss] wanted to know the party...
...concern. When Secretary of State Dean Acheson recently visited Germany, the people showed a genuine, spontaneous warmth toward America's representative which surprised and gratified Acheron and his advisers. But the mass of Germans remain doubtful and suspicious; a relapse in West Germany's economic health, or even its failure to improve, may incite bitter resentment and political collapse...
...Even without a stoppage in dismantling, economists believe that Germany could have attained a reasonable standard of living; now that dismantling has been all but stopped .as a political and psychological threat to the new republic, German competition will soon be a force to be met by the French and British in commerce and trade. Obviously, further demands for wider sovereignty and the chance to produce even more will be revived by the Germans when the Western occupation statute is reviewed next fall...
...offices of Sweden's tax collectors. Thousands of outraged taxpayers complained of being undercharged and hence deprived of a listing among the aristocracy of the higher brackets. Others, equally outraged, swore that they had never made that kind of money in their lives. One distressed soul had even quietly tried to bribe Editor Blomberg into leaving his name out of the register. If his wife learned his real income, pleaded the unhappy taxpayer, it would cost him at least a new mink coat...