Word: owen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rummaging through his capacious tan briefcase, he fetched up some affidavits which, he claimed, would prove that Johns Hopkins Professor Owen Lattimore "is a Soviet agent and also that he either is, or at least has been, a member of the Communist Party...
...prospective witness, said McCarthy, was a former top Communist who "will testify . . . that Owen Lattimore was known to him to be a member of the Communist Party." A former general in the Red army was also prepared to testify, said McCarthy, that the Institute of Public Relations was a prime source of Soviet intelligence at the time Lattimore served on its executive committee (and as editor of I.P.R.'s Pacific Affairs...
...card-carrying Communists in the State Department, had named not a single one. He had ducked again when he was challenged to produce the 205 "security risks" he had accused the department of harboring. Finally, he had announced that he would stake his whole case on the charge that Owen Lattimore was a Russian spy. That was the position he abandoned last week, just three days after J. Edgar Hoover had testified to the effect that his FBI had no such information...
...These Little Men." Secretary of State Dean Acheson called a press conference too, one that was notable for the way in which State, instead of trying to defend Owen Lattimore, did its best to disassociate itself from him. Acheson said he didn't think that he had even...
...schoolteacher, 49-year-old Owen Lattimore grew up in China. He roamed the high, bitter steppes and the burning deserts of Asia's hinterlands, became the familiar of Uzbek traders and Mongolian camel herders, and his honeymoon was a trek by camel, sled and shaggy pony through Chinese Turkestan...