Word: overground
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...Chambers was ill at his Maryland home last week, unavailable to expound the letter. However, a reasonable paraphrase of it in overground language might be: Having received threats from Jake, Chambers warned him to beware of 1) a Soviet apparatus other than Jake's, and 2) the U.S. Government, if there were reprisals against Chambers. Since the UG (underground) was fighting the Ul (another branch of Soviet apparatus) for control of their U.S. operations, Jake might get caught in the riptide between them, as Chambers himself had been. Although President Roosevelt and Attorney General Frank Murphy, in Chambers...
...never carried a passenger. Once during a bitter Depression winter, a score of shivering hoboes holed up in one of its diggings, until they were driven out by the police. But no tracks were ever laid in its 2.6 miles of underground or 13.9 miles of overground right...
...convention, thoroughly disgusted because Mr. La Follette and the A. F. of L. had despised his work. There was William Z. Foster, who began as an I. W. W., then went over to organized Labor, and finally deserted to Communism. Now he is head of the Workers' Party, the "overground" organization of the Communist Party which found it wise to "submerge" after one of its conventions, picturesquely staged amid Michigan sand dunes, had been raided and Foster, Ruthenberg and others arrested. There was Joseph Manley, son- in-law and arch-disciple of Foster. There was C. E. Ruthenberg who began...