Word: pumpkin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bear-pit tension, the testimony of ex-Communist-Courier Whittaker Chambers and his wife was finally complete. Hulking, flat-voiced Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy hoisted himself into a sitting position on a corner of the Government table and began a careful job of legal bricklaying-matching the "pumpkin papers" and other secret documents with the originals from which they had been copied...
...diction grew richer as he began examining documents handed him by Murphy (a move which Murphy evidently made to prevent any implication that Wadleigh, not Hiss, might have stolen the pumpkin papers from the State Department files). The witness said he had never seen them before. Of one, he said: -'. . . it is a sufficiently rich fountain . . . an unusually rich fountain that I would have been interested in had I seen...
Along the Pumpkin Circuit. It took him no time at all to figure out what he wanted to do. "Banking and horse racing wouldn't have went together," he decided. "Folks think all horse trainers are horse thieves...
...early wanderings took him along the "pumpkin show" circuit, from Tulsa to Lewiston, Idaho. Race meetings lasted one or two days, and purses were a piddling $100. About 30 vagabond horsemen roamed this circuit, and none ever got rich?or starved?mainly because of a secret mutual-assistance pact that no matter who won a race everybody with a horse in it shared equally in the purse...
...Removal of secret government papers from a pumpkin on Chambers' farm...