Word: ex-communist
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With the Government asking the questions, husky, big-jawed Manning R. Johnson made an effective prosecution witness in the perjury trial of Labor Leader Harry Bridges. But when the defense began to prod him last week, Ex-Communist Johnson made an even better...
...week's end, Schomaker's devastating testimony was unshaken and the Government had produced another ex-Communist to substantiate it. For the first time in its ten-year effort to deport Harry Bridges to his native Australia, the U.S. seemed to be getting somewhere...
Their accuser, Whittaker Chambers, quietly went back over his old story: that Alger Hiss, a trusted government official facing trial for the second time on a charge of perjury, had fed secret documents into ex-Communist Courier Chambers' spy ring. But to the familiar mosaic he added a few sharp, new fragments...
...Attorney Cross indicated that a minor witness in the first trial might play a major role in this one. Cross declared that he would prove that it was not Alger Hiss but another former State Department employee, Henry Julian Wadleigh, who had fed the controversial State Department documents to ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers. The defense had hinted the same thing in the first trial, but could not make it stick. Preliminaries over, Chambers took the stand...
...hustled out of the city room with a long-term assignment: to find the truth about Melvin Rader, professor of philosophy at the University of Washington. Before the state legislature's Committee on Un-American Activities in July 1948, Melvin Rader had been labeled a Communist. His accuser, ex-Communist George Hewitt, charged that Rader had attended a secret party school near Kingston, N.Y. for six weeks in the summer of 1938. Rader's reply was a detailed denial: he was not a Communist, and he had spent the summer of 1938 in Seattle and at Canyon Creek...