Word: magill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list of signers included such perennial prophets of the Communist faith as Novelist Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast and a whole bevy of Daily Worker staffers: ex-New Masses Editor Joseph North, his onetime Executive Editor A. B. Magil, Ben Field. It included at least one former Communist Party official: V. J. Jerome (real name: Isaac Romain...
From Manhattan, A. B. Magil of the Communist Daily Worker pressed the point deeper. He had applied for a passport to visit Palestine, and the State Department had turned him down (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Magil fired a cable to Geneva, asked the U.S. delegation if it really meant what it said...
...delegation promptly recovered the State Department's fumble. It cabled the department and Communist Magil got his passport. (He threatened to make another fuss at Geneva unless another Worker reporter got a passport to cover the Italian election April...
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