Word: simon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Budenz testified, Barnes was one of "a few" newsmen admitted to the inner sanctum of the Communist Party convention. (Barnes, now an editor with the publishing house of Simon & Schuster, denied all implications that he was under Communist influence.) Ex-Soviet General Alexander Barmine, an officer in Russia's prewar G-2 and now head of the Voice of America's Russian-language broadcasts, testified that Red intelligence regarded Barnes and Owen Lattimore...
...others: Harper & Brothers; Houghton Mifflin Co.; Little, Brown & Co.; Random House; Simon & Schuster...
...Communists promised not to reopen fire so long as the ship stayed where she was anchored. From her new skipper, Lieut. Commander John Simon Kerans, who came down from the embassy at Nanking, they demanded an admission that the Amethyst had provoked the attack. This was to be the price of freedom, set and maintained in eleven frustrating, tea-drinking sessions. Kerans refused to pay. The steel ship became a furnace, as fuel ran low and the ventilators had to be shut off. As the carefully measured food ran out, the crew went on half rations. To Skipper Kerans...
...party reins when the eleven Communist bosses (convicted of similar charges in 1949) are sent off to prison. Among them were familiar figures: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 60, national committee member and New York Daily Worker columnist; Party Theoretician Alexander Trachtenberg, 65, a product of Russia and Yale; Simon Gerson, 41, onetime candidate for New York City councilman and longtime party newspaperman...
...trying to be a good boy," he said. But he left no doubt that the two top men in Harry Truman's Cabinet-he and Dean Acheson-had differed sharply. Military policy, said Johnson, was "being influenced by the State Department prior to a simon-pure decision by Defense." Their chief differences were over Formosa. "The Defense Department battled day in & day out to keep Formosa out of hostile hands...