Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They reached an areaway, separated from the consulate by an iron fence, just as three Russians burst out of the consulate's back door. As police scrambled over the fence, they could hear the injured woman moaning in Russian: "Leave me alone, leave me alone." Despite her pleas, and the shouted orders of the cops, the Russians picked her up, lugged her back into the consulate, with the police right behind them...
That was the home of Russian-born Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, described by Miss Bentley as the kingpin of one Communist spy ring. There, Miss Bentley had testified, Mrs. Silvermaster and William Ludwig Ullman, an Air Forces major who lived with the Silvermasters, had photographed documents and other data which Miss Bentley carried to her Russian employers. Silvermaster had denied that he was a spy, but he refused to answer other pertinent questions on the ground that he might incriminate himself...
...Elizabeth Bentley: George Silverman (a friend of his Harvard days), Victor Perlo, Harry White, Robert Talbot Miller III. Some were economists and he knew "literally hundreds of economists throughout the Government." One friend of Currie's who was no economist was Anatoli Gromov, onetime secretary of the Russian embassy. Miss Bentley testified last week that on one occasion Gromov had given her $2,000 for her information. Currie readily admitted knowing Gromov. "I met him at social occasions and was entertained at his house on one occasion. He made no effort to draw me out. The conversation...
...electoral votes, made it plain to his cheering audience, at least, that the Dixiecrats were the only hope of the South-yes, of the whole country. He lumped Harry Truman, Tom Dewey and Henry Wallace together and solemnly declared that they all hoped to give the country the "new Russian look." Harry Truman's civil-rights program, he said, was a plot to make the U.S. a police state...
TIME'S Berlin Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes cabled: "The notable mark of Russian conduct here is that in no respect has it been tempered by the talks in Moscow. While Western officials feel bound these days to move warily on such issues as the currency crisis, lest the Moscow talks be prejudiced in the slightest way, the Russians plainly feel no such restraint...