Word: freedman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accuser, one Benjamin Freedman, was a peculiar and disgruntled zealot-a self-styled "excommunicated Jew" who had given financial backing to a wild-eyed, anti-Semitic hate sheet. At his instigation the Senate Armed Services Committee solemnly called a hearing, put an ex-Communist named Ralph De Sola on the witness stand and listened to four hours of hair-raising testimony...
Some extremely odd and unpalatable aspects of Benjamin Freedman's charges began to seep out in testimony. The letter of indictment which he sent the Senate had been drafted with the help of Jew-baiting Gerald L. K. Smith in the offices of Mississippi's vitriolic Representative John Rankin. Freedman testified that he had been visited by Don Surine (an employee of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy) and Edward K. Nellor (an employee of Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr.), who came bearing a letter of introduction from Rabble-Rouser Smith...
...interesting to speculate as to the possible sentiments of the former if given a choice between a memorial plaque for themselves and a memorial housing project--or even a one year housing extension--for their ex-comrades. Monroe Freedman...
RICHARD A. FREEDMAN...
Died. Dr. Charles Richard Drew, 45, pioneer in the collection and use of blood plasma, chief surgeon for Washington's Freedman Hospital; in an automobile accident; near Burlington, N.C. For supervising New York's blood donations to bombed Britain and directing the first Red Cross collection unit for the U.S. armed forces, he won the 1943 Spingarn Award "for the highest achievement by an American Negro...