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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Duggan's name, Mundt said, had cropped up at a secret hearing held by the House Committee on Un-American Activities early in December. At that time, Russian-born Isaac Don Levine, an ex-Hearstling who edits the anti-Communist publication Plain Talk and who collaborated with General W. G. Krivitsky on his memoirs, had made a damaging charge. He said that in 1939 he had heard ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers tell former Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle that Duggan was one of six men from whom Communists had obtained secret documents...
...Communist activities, he told them that he had never met Duggan, had never received documents from him, had no personal knowledge that he was a Communist. Next day he augmented his statement, without clarifying it, by adding that he had nevertheless "found it necessary to give Duggan's name to Mr. Berle...
...Along with Bluie West Eight, a wartime code name for the Air Force's Greenland bases. In the same area, during the war, six P-38s and two B-17s were forced down...
...toward the goal, was neatly dumped on the ice by a couple of veterans. Sneered one: "Don't hurt him, he's the boss's son." The crowd chanted: "Take him out! Take him out!" They thought he might be trying to get by on his name: his father, Lester Patrick, one of the patron saints of professional hockey and the hero of one of its finest hours,* was manager-coach of the Rangers...
...operation looked like a success. The masthead flew two MacArthurs instead of one; mustached brother John D. MacArthur, president of Chicago's Bankers Life & Casualty Co., was the new publisher. Ince had sold out and gone off to Europe. "We didn't want anything with the MacArthur name on it to fail," explained John D. loyally. "My group-just some unpicturesque businessmen who want to make money-has put up $500,000 to make...