Word: gerson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dolly") Thackrey (who is also the owner) was for Tom Dewey. Last week the Thackreys outdid themselves. In a four-page election supplement, readers were not only told which local candidates the Post Home News favored, but which ones the Thackreys disagreed on. Example: Thackrey favored Communist Simon W. Gerson for city council; his wife endorsed Jack Kranis, Democratic and Liberal Party candidate...
Next day the co-editors got an irate letter from the help. Sixty-seven staffers (including the executive, managing, and city editors) wanted it known that they emphatically disagreed with both the Thackreys: with Ted chiefly for indorsing Wallace, Communist Gerson and eight candidates of the Commy-controlled American Labor Party, and with Dolly for indorsing one of the A.L.P. men. The staffers wrote: "The impression must prevail, among this newspaper's readers, that those who write for it and produce it daily are, like one of you, for the triumph of Henry Wallace, of many Communist Party members...
Neither before nor during his trial would he talk. Harold Samuel Gerson, 41, Montreal-born Communist spy, preferred to keep his own secrets, though as an engineer in Canada's wartime Munitions Department, he had given away several Canadian state secrets to Russia. Government officials had appealed to him, "as a Canadian citizen, to assist his Government by supplying any information in his possession regarding Soviet espionage." Gerson snapped...
Last week in Ottawa a jury convicted Gerson of conspiring to communicate state secrets to Soviet Russia. He was the sixth defendant convicted in the spy case. With no visible flicker of feeling he listened to Justice G. F. McFarland's scathing words: "I am not going to lecture you. You are too intelligent, even brilliant, not to understand fully why you are here." The sentence: five years in Kingston Penitentiary...
...wormwood for Canadians. In a crisp, 4,000-word report, the Government ticked off the identities of four other persons accused of giving secrets to the Russians: 1) Dr. Raymond Boyer, a McGill University chemistry professor who had worked on a super-explosive known as "R.D.X."; 2) Harold Samuel Gerson, a scientist who worked for the Department of Munitions & Supply; 3) R.C.A.F. Squadron Leader Matt Simons Nightingale; 4) Dr. David Shugar, who worked on anti-submarine devices while in the Canadian Navy. Five other "detainees" were still to be identified...