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...ghosts. Accusations and name-calling turned the hearing into bedlam. Under the bullfrog blustering of Santo's lawyer, swart, strutting, pint-sized Harry Sacher, some witnesses wilted. Others roared back. Into the record went such words as "bum," "parasite," "derelict," "stool pigeon," "police spy," "informer," "bigamist," "white slaver," "Muttel the Goniff" (Yiddish for Max the Thief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Ghost Story | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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