Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took over his work of collecting "secret information" from Communist members and sympathizers in Washington. There were about 20 Communists she saw in Washington every other week or so; she said that there were 20 or 30 more men & women in the Government feeding information to her contacts. They were in wartime bureaus and in the Army, the Air Force, the State and Treasury Departments -almost every place except the Navy and the FBI. There was also "a man around the White House," who helped to place her informants in strategic spots...
...Communist party-lining before they could be thrown at him. No matter how hard the reporters tried, he said, "I am not going to engage in Red-baiting . . ." That still left one interesting question: Did Wallace write (in 1934) the fawning, fantastic Guru letters, full of schoolboy mysticism and "secret" pet names, to the late Nicholas Roerich, a fork-bearded Russian artist, explorer, and cultist (TIME, Dec. 29)? For months Columnist Westbrook Pegler had been trying to provoke a yes or no from Wallace...
...long last, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger got rid of her floundering Phoenix Arizona Times. The new majority stockholder is G. Hamilton Beasley, a wealthy Los Angeles investment broker with a home near Phoenix. The minority stockholders are a dozen Phoenix business and professional men. The sale price was a secret, but Phoenicians gossiped that Anna and her backers had lost their shirts and that the new owners merely assumed the paper's bills. The new publisher of the Times is Columbus Giragi, bombastic New Deal-hating political columnist...
Construction. The AEC tells little about its vast building program, expected to cost $1,250,000,000. The Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, with its nuclear reactor, is "well under way." Fifteen thousand workers are busy at Hanford, Wash., presumably expanding the vast plutonium works. The super-secret weapons plant and laboratory at Los Alamos, N. Mex. are being renovated and extended...
...Secret Service boys" pried into the presidential steaks and fillets; members of the Fine Arts Commission studied the least new drape with a beady eye; maintenance officers checked the smallest bill. Breakfast began at 6 a.m., ended at noon, when lunch began. It was hard to tell how much silver there was, because visitors not only pocketed the monogrammed spoons and forks but even managed to get away with large trays and colonial bowls...