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...want to hear about the international affairs of Acheson's affluent Washington (D.C.) law firm, did want him to say again that he had no love for Stalin, and above all, wanted to discuss Alger Hiss. Was it true that Hiss was Assistant Secretary Acheson's right-hand man after the period when, according to Congressional spy probers, Hiss was busy in Communist espionage...
...Scientific Institute of Economic and Social Research, a writer on economics for Léon Blum's Socialist paper, Le Populaire. In 1941 he escaped from occupied France and joined Charles de Gaulle in London. The Free French sent him to wartime Washington where he was the right-hand man of famed Economic Planner Jean Monnet in the French Economic Mission, later headed the French Purchasing Commission. Although a Socialist, Marjolin does not believe in spreading socialism indiscriminately over Europe; he favors letting private enterprise alone where it works well, e.g., in Belgium...
...retired" from his public duties, John Rankin managed to have the committee put on a permanent basis--until then it had needed yearly renewals of power--and kept it going until the Republican sweep in 1946. Then J. Parnell Thomas took the sacred trust. Thomas had been Dics' right-hand man on the committee ever since its creation. As a Republican in the era of Roosevelt, Thomas had waited patiently for his day, and by the time of his accession he had learned so much from his chairman that he was actually able to out-Dies Dies...
...Bunch of Martyrs. Despite the loud objections, Congressmen have for some time maintained their right to ask the "$64 question." Some of the unionists answered it. Samuel Wolchok, president of the union, said that he was not a Communist. So did his right-hand man, Jack Altman, onetime Socialist. Both of them thought the question was improper, however. They thought that jailing the nine would only make "a bunch of martyrs" out of them...
...publish their strips he can at least pick their brains. Others in the new braintrust: Editor Richard Lauterbach of '48, part-time adviser on layout and features; Lawrence Resner, who left a labor reporting job on the New York Times to be Crum's right-hand man; Managing Editor Jay Odell, a Nieman Fellow and former telegraph editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. PM Editor John P. Lewis, who had kept the staff together during eight uncertain weeks, was out on the street...