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Word: harvey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news man to question Matusow went straight to the point: "How can we be sure that what you tell us now is the truth?" Matusow replied blandly: "I feel that the truth kind of speaks for itself." It had better; little help could be expected from the likes of Harvey Matusow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: False Witness | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...press conference was held to blurb Matusow's forthcoming autobiography, False Witness, in which he tells of being a highly successful liar while serving as a professional witness. The book will not, however, tell the whole story of Harvey Marshall Matusow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: False Witness | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...Daily Worker ran a contest in which the person selling the most subscriptions would get a free trip to Puerto Rico, then the Red equivalent of TV's trip to Bermuda. Harvey Matusow badgered his friends to contribute to various causes (he offered a wide selection, since he was a member of 46 front organizations), and diverted the money he got into the Daily Worker contest. When he learned that he was still far behind in the competition, he dug up $100 out of his own pocket and faked a list of new subscribers. The party proudly announced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: False Witness | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...Harvey Matusow now confesses that he testified falsely against the 13 second-string Communists. He says that he was coached in this by Roy Cohn, then an assistant U.S. attorney. (Cohn denied the charge.) Matusow says he also lied in the Jencks trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: False Witness | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...that stool pigeons are as a class to be despised and not to be trusted." Matusow's old contest sponsor, the Daily Worker, began serializing his recantations. The real cause of real anti-Communism had been gravely damaged by the people who believed-or pretended to believe-Harvey Matusow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: False Witness | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

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