Word: sistant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time was put in charge of a project by which the colonel, among others, hoped to prove by cipher that Sir Francis Bacon had written the entire works of Shakespeare (see FOREIGN NEWS). After achieving this lofty honor, Friedman married one of the colonel's as sistant cipher clerks, Elizabeth Smith. As World War I loomed on the European horizon, the impulsive colonel learned with a start that the U.S. Government had no cryptologists whatever. With scarcely a by-your-leave, he offered the services of his entire crew, including Friedman. From then on for nearly two years, much...
...Rosenberg trial and the big New York trial of top Communist leaders. He had also given auspicious evidence of a trait that still rankles his associates: contempt of all but the top boss. In 1950 his boss, U.S. Attorney Irving Saypol, made 23year-old Roy Cohn his confidential as sistant...
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