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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Please accept my warmest congratulations on your article on Greece [TIME, May 23], for it is the first time that the facts have been told with such sincerity. All Greeks are grateful for the aid that the U.S. has given to Greece. With this American aid, with the Greek fighting spirit, and, above all, with God's help, I am sure that communism will soon cease to exist in the tortured land of Hellas...
...Clark got her reward for political labors: $10,000 a year, use of a limousine, the pleasure of seeing her signature* on all U.S. folding money. ¶Received a new bow tie from a caller, Michigan's new Democratic governor, G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, who had been given a whole box of them. The onetime haberdasher whipped off his four-in-hand, skillfully knotted the bow tie without looking in a mirror...
...Government was going to put Chambers on the stand-there he would tell "in most explicit fashion" how Hiss had given him secret documents in 1937 and 1938. The jury would be shown 47 of them; Chambers would testify that Hiss brought documents home at night from his office in the State Department and that his wife, Priscilla Hiss, typed copies of them on an old, pica-type Woodstock typewriter...
Conference speakers include L. R. Boulware, vice-president of the General Electric Company, and William B. Given, Jr., president of the American Brake Shoe Company...
Senator Hickenlooper ahs conducted the current hearings in a sadly irresponsible faction. He has blown a few dubious charges up to an accusation of "gross mismanagement." He accused the AEC of hiring 2000 workers without proper loyalty checks--disregarding the fact that these men were given only emergency checks to facilitate their work on projects where the demands of security actually required speed. He ahs ignored Lilientnal's request that names of accused workers be kept from the public by so explicitly describing one atomic scientist that his colleagues could not fail to know him. This sort of thing...