Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later the Dies Committee heard a witness as outspoken and blunt as Witness Krivitsky was retiring. This was Maurice Malkin, 40-year-old naturalized Russian fur worker, charter member of the U. S. Communist Party, long a well-known figure in the allegedly Communist-dominated Fur Workers Union in Manhattan. Tossed into jail for two years after the incredible New York fur workers' strike of 1926,* Comrade Malkin nursed a grievance. But he remained a member until 1936, collected information, gossip, made statements that led Chairman Dies to observe: "It would be hard for the Chair to believe...
...Trotskyites, for white chauvinism, for Zionism, irresponsible Bohemianism-for innumerable heresies whose very names sound weird in a democracy, but which operate to insure unquestioned obedience from members. These dread papers are pondered by Comrade Dirba in his office on the ninth floor of Party headquarters on 13th Street, Manhattan. His practice is generally to telephone the accused, usually around midnight, and say in a hollow voice, "Comrade, I would like...
Civil Liberties. Liberals fearing that exposures of Communist machinations might lead to a curbing of U. S. civil liberties assembled last week in Manhattan to ponder questions of censorship, trade unions, rights of foreign-born citizens. Doubters who lacked confidence in U. S. democratic institutions feared that action taken against Communists might extend to other minority groups. People who doubted the vitality of U. S. trade unions feared that the Dies expose might harm, rather than help, the U. S. labor movement. To these Attorney General Frank Murphy spoke soothingly, promised that civil liberties would be preserved while subversive, disloyal...
...five humid May days in 1928 a group of shirtsleeved men stayed in a smoke-fogged suite in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, bargaining, eating, occasionally sleeping. Clarence Dillon wanted to sell the automobile company bought four years before by Dillon, Read & Co. from the widows of Motormakers John and Horace Dodge. Walter P. Chrysler, as expert a machinist as ever stood at a lathe, as smart a trader as ever swapped a horse, wanted...
This week the doors of Manhattan's garish Grand Central Palace open on the biggest, brightest, costliest annual U. S. coming-out party: The National Automobile Show. For their 40th debut U. S. motormakers have plenty of shiny new models to show, plenty of bright new points to talk about...