Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flying Neutrons." He found, said Jordan, "a lot of blueprints and maps and engineering drawings and scientific data" labeled "Oak Ridge, Manhattan Engineering District." Major Jordan had never heard of the Manhattan Project, but he noted the words down. He inspected a blueprint and noted that it read: "Walls five feet thick of lead and water to control flying neutrons." He also found, he said, a note on White House stationery, "which impressed me because it had the name of Harry Hopkins printed in the upper left-hand corner. I jotted down part of the message. It said...
After the headline-making broadcast, Author Robert Sherwood, biographer of Hopkins, promptly labeled the yarn "one of the most amazing cock-and-bull stories I have ever heard." He declared that never, in his reading of thousands of Hopkins papers, had he seen any White House stationery bearing his name. In initialing documents, said Sherwood, Hopkins invariably wrote "H. L. H.," never "H. H." This week the House Un-American Activities Committee opened a hearing. On the stand, Racey Jordan repeated his charges; but this time said he had spoken to Hopkins only once. The committee's investigator pointed...
...testify against him, he surrendered. He withdrew his plea of not guilty and entered a no-contest plea to four charges of conspiracy and fraud. Liable to as much as 32 years in prison and fines totalling $40,000, Parnell Thomas hoped for mercy-a quality he had never shown in his ruthless badgering of witnesses in the days when he presided over the House Un-American Activities Committee...
...least five women, including Helen Campbell's niece and the niece's maid, Parnell Thomas' aunt and daughters-in-law, were on the Congressman's payroll, drew about $20,000 in salaries and never did any work. One, a clerk-typist on the payroll of the House Un-American Activities Committee, did put in a short stint-addressing Thomas' Christmas cards...
Harry Darby was not interested in staying a Senator long. "I have never been a candidate for elective office," he explained, "and this appointment doesn't change my mind on that." At the end of next year, when his term ends, Senator Darby will bow out and let Governor Carlson...