Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale Club of New York, across Vanderbilt Avenue from Grand Central Station, dedicated a plaque proclaiming that "near this site" Capt. Nathan Hale (Yale 1773) was hanged by the British in 1776. Previously the marker had been affixed to a slaughterhouse (seven blocks away), now about to be razed for a United Nations building...
Record. In Little Rock, Ark., Acting Governor Nathan Gordon justified his reduction of Amos Wilson's sentence for second-degree murder from nine to two years: "During the time he has been in the penitentiary he has been a law-abiding citizen...
That was the home of Russian-born Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, described by Miss Bentley as the kingpin of one Communist spy ring. There, Miss Bentley had testified, Mrs. Silvermaster and William Ludwig Ullman, an Air Forces major who lived with the Silvermasters, had photographed documents and other data which Miss Bentley carried to her Russian employers. Silvermaster had denied that he was a spy, but he refused to answer other pertinent questions on the ground that he might incriminate himself...
...Senator Claude Pepper and West Virginia's Harley Kilgore)-were among those previously named by Courier Elizabeth Bentley TIME, Aug. 9). Chambers had other names: Lee Pressman, onetime New Deal legal eagle, later C.I.O. counsel and currently one of Henry Wallace's left-hand men; Nathan Witt, onetime secretary for the National Labor Relations Board; Henry Collins (ex-Agriculture Department); Donald Hiss, who left the State Department...
...given her information, although she never had direct contact with him, and thought that he was not a Communist. She said Currie and one George Silverman, a former Government employee, were "very good friends-they went to Harvard together." Silverman, she said, reported Currie's information to Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, who worked at the Board of Economic Warfare and was the Communist she saw most frequently in Washington...