Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Einhorn, once an Eagle reporter and active Guild official, was named by Burdett as the man who first tapped him for Soviet espionage. Einhorn, now a public-relations man for the Communist Polish embassy, blandly replied on the stand that he had merely suggested sending Burdett to Finland as an "objective" reporter for the Communist New Masses or Daily Worker. He refused, under the Fifth Amendment, to answer questions about past party membership...
...decision was made in the case of Polish-born U.S. Citizen Max Shachtman, 51, onetime friend and agent of Leon Trotsky, national chairman of a U.S. leftist faction: the anticapitalist, anti-Soviet Independent Socialist League. In 1953 Shachtman applied for a passport in order to get material for articles and lectures. During months of tilting with the State Department, he was granted an interview, refused a formal hearing before the Board of Passport Appeals and refused the passport itself. Reason: his league was on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations. When a U.S. District Court dismissed...
...United Nations are quite incredible and in time become insupportable.'' complained New Zealand's delegate. Sir Carl Berendsen. Pakistan's Zafrullah Khan once talked for two days, and set a U.N. record. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd, listening to the same interminable speech by Soviet, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian and Byelo Russian delegates, remarked in Oxonian tones: "If I may lapse into the idiom of bebop, just dig that cracked record." Sometimes U.N. humor has been less intentional, as when Warren Austin advised the Arabs and the Jews to "settle this problem in a true Christian spirit...
...writing. Before he was mysteriously imprisoned in the late 1930s, some say for making indiscreet remarks about the Stalinist regime. Babel had worked as a Bolshevik propagandist, been a member of the Cheka. and ridden with Budenny's Red Cossack cavalry as a supply officer in the Polish campaign of 1920. The meek intellectual with "spectacles on [his] nose and autumn in [his] heart" as Babel described himself, spent the young manhood of his life honing his squeamish conscience on "the simplest of proficiencies -the ability to kill my fellow...
...years Harry Lev has been confounding his competitors as much as he confused the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He can speak seven languages (English, Polish, Hebrew, German, Yiddish, Arabic and Russian), but he can neither read nor write English. He organized his own capmaking firm with $500 capital in 1925, only two years after he arrived in the U.S. from Russia. He worked day and night, soon found out how to get contracts. Now he is worth more than...