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Powered Tools. Lauchlin Currie, onetime White House assistant, readily admitted that he had been entertained "several times" at Silvermaster's house. Once he had gone to the basement with Ullman, who showed his powered tools to Mr. Currie's son. He had seen no photographic equipment, he said...
When he took the witness stand, neat, small-shouldered Lauchlin Currie, a straightforward, earnest witness, was accompanied by his friend Dean Acheson, former Under Secretary of State. He made a categorical denial of ever having been a Communist or ever having given inside Government information to anybody not authorized to receive...
...Miss Bentley's testimony before one committee. Next day she appeared before J. Parnell Thomas' House Un-American Activities Committee. There she got down to naming names. Who was that "man around the White House?" Elizabeth Bentley's reply startled her audience. He was, she said, Lauchlin Currie, one of Franklin Roosevelt's closest advisers, a White House special assistant for six years who had twice headed missions to China...
...plan's 69 hydroelectric projects, port, canal and irrigation works; 2) to sell for U.S. manufacturers $2 billion worth of turbines, trucks, tools and necessary materials. Among the I.A.C.C. experts are Engineers L. F. Harza and Theodore Knappen, who once worked for Standard Oil, and New Deal Economists Lauchlin Currie and Robert Nathan. The first fruits of the mission's counsel were announced last week: the purchase by the Argentine state railways of 90 diesel-electric locomotives for $20 million. Said Peron of the new technical collaboration: "This is a great historical event." It was the first time...
...Lauchlin Currie, the President's economic blitzman, got much more out of Switzerland than the first accounts indicated when he completed his mission to Berne last fortnight (TIME, March 19). In addition to cutting their war trade with Germany, the Swiss...