Word: second
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their accuser, Whittaker Chambers, quietly went back over his old story: that Alger Hiss, a trusted government official facing trial for the second time on a charge of perjury, had fed secret documents into ex-Communist Courier Chambers' spy ring. But to the familiar mosaic he added a few sharp, new fragments...
...piece of testimony, produced at a congressional hearing but barred from the first trial by Judge Samuel Kaufman, was admitted to the second trial by Judge Henry Goddard. Hiss, who had a Ford roadster, had bought a new Plymouth. Said Chambers: "He wanted to get rid of the Ford. He proposed to turn it over to the Communist Party for the use of some poor organizer . . . Later Mr. Hiss told me that he had turned the car over according to an arrangement made between him and J. Peters." If the Government could prove that such a transfer had actually taken...
When she got a list of the artists who were to appear, Mrs. McCullough was a little put out. The second concert featured Larry Adler, the mouth organist, and Paul Draper, the lissome dancer, and she had read enough about them to conclude that both had been busy supporters of various Communist fronts. Hester McCullough went to the telephone and called several board members of the Greenwich Community Concert Association to protest the idea of presenting artists who mixed their art with politics. Most of the members pooh-poohed...
...show that it still had some muscle left, the Socialist Force Ouvrère, France's second largest labor federation, called a one-day general strike, set it for a Friday. The Communist-run federation of labor (CGT) gleefully announced that it was going to strike, too, trumpeted that France would never forget its black Friday. As it turned out, strikebound Friday was at worst only a dull grey. According to the Ministry of Interior, the strike" was 100% effective in the northern and eastern coal mines, in the ports, in some metal industries. But a majority of France...
Kathleen Winsor, whose sensational pen has been quiet since it scratched out her sexy, best-selling Forever Amber in 1944, has switched from plumed-hat romantics to life in the modern world, her publishers said. The second Winsor novel...