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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Heard its foreign relations committee recommend contempt citations against three key witnesses who refused to talk about Communist associations during the McCarthy hearings. The three: ex-U.S. Communist Boss Earl Browder, Commie Angel Frederick Vanderbilt Field, ex-Editor Philip Jaffe of Amerasia.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Work Done | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

All Clear. After 31 days of investigation and two million words of testimony, the subcommittee underwrote the loyalty of the State Department and cleared everybody McCarthy accused, with only a light knuckle rap here & there. Likewise innocent, said the report, were all Government investigators or prosecutors who had been assailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Returned in Kind | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

"Crime," observes one of the characters, "is only a left-handed form of human endeavor." To dramatize the point, the picture sets itself the task of probing half a dozen major characters and offering keen glimpses of as many minor ones. Among those in the rogues' gallery: a ruthless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

Against the sordid backgrounds of an anonymous big U.S. city, the film deftly introduces its main characters one by one, starts to develop them with quick strokes while linking them together into the burglary plot. It gives a fascinating account of Jaffe's precise planning to burrow underground into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

So the matter stood. Jaffe and his old associates went about their several businesses. Amerasia had folded. Jaffe was passing the time writing a history of Asia. Kate Mitchell was collecting material for a book on the Far East. Andrew Roth, on the staff of the leftist Nation, was at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Strange Case of Amerasia | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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