Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indignant than William Henry Taylor, onetime U.S. Treasury Department official who had found a comfortable postwar roost with the International Monetary Fund (as an adviser on Middle Eastern affairs). Upon learning that Witness Bentley had cited him as a member of the Nathan Gregory Silvermaster-Harry Dexter White spy ring in the Treasury Department, Taylor angrily fired off letters and an affidavit denying that he was or ever had been a Communist. Last week, after hearings on Taylor's fitness to continue with the International Monetary Fund, a U.S. Civil Service Commission loyalty review board agreed with Elizabeth Bentley...
Member of the Ring. Wrote the board: "The reports of investigation disclosed information considered derogatory ... to the following effect: the employee [Taylor] was a member of a Soviet espionage ring headed by Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, which operated in Washington and New York in the early 1940s. The employee surreptitiously furnished to Nathan Gregory Silvermaster oral and written information affecting the national interests of the U.S. and other material and data of a confidential nature available to him as an employee of the U.S. Treasury Department. Silvermaster, in turn, transmitted the material furnished by the employee to agents of the Union...
...hearings] some of the reported factual information was admitted by Dr. Taylor to be true, but he denied that his motivation was based on a sympathy for or support of the Communist philosophy . . . Dr. Taylor also categorically denied that he had ever been a member of an espionage ring or of the Communist Party . . . The board found it difficult to believe that an individual who was reported to have been strongly pro-Communist throughout the 1930s, a Communist Party member in Hawaii in 1939, and an admitted friend of an espionage agent could have in November 1940 casually wandered into...
...Greying, slight (5 ft. 8 in., 150 lbs.), he is shy, quiet, retiring. A nonsmoker and nondrinker, he likes to raise vegetables, walk Civil War battlefields, and take pictures with a prewar Kodak Bantam special ("Best camera Eastman ever made"). His soft Georgia voice takes on a rare commanding ring when he mentions the liberal social policies he has been writing about, arguing for, and putting to work for more than a quarter of a century. He constantly seeks a practical, private-enterprise solution to social problems, e.g., when he found in 1953 that federal employees had no group life...
Whistle, Whistle. If this was not exactly sailing Harriman's hat into the ring, it was at least nudging it considerably past the taw line. Carmine De Sapio will lead-and control-the New York delegation to the 1956 national convention, and he is not a man to waste his time on token political gestures. New York's political sons (by reason of the state's 90-odd delegate votes and financial resources) have a habit of becoming serious contenders in presidential nominating politics...