Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he took the witness stand, neat, small-shouldered Lauchlin Currie, a straightforward, earnest witness, was accompanied by his friend Dean Acheson, former Under Secretary of State. He made a categorical denial of ever having been a Communist or ever having given inside Government information to anybody not authorized to receive...
...Charming Fellow." When round-faced Harry Dexter White, onetime Assistant Treasury Secretary, took the stand, more flat contradictions went into the record. He said that he did not know Elizabeth Bentley or Whittaker Chambers (TIME, Aug. 16). As to Chambers' story that he had pleaded with White to break away from the Communist party line: "Something I would remember very definitely would be if a gentleman met me and tried to convince me not to go into or not to leave a Communist ring. That I would have remembered. That...
...social security was had from the cellar, not from the federal government." He recalled how he earned his first money: "I entered into collective bargaining by which it was settled that I should receive one cent per hundred for picking potato bugs in a field in sight of this stand. My impression then, and now, is that it was an oppressive wage rate...
...rumor spread that the Russians had ordered railway employees to stand by for reopening of the line from Helmstedt to Berlin. The German supervisor of the line denied it. Another rumor had it that the Russians were beefing up their defenses in front of Germany's western zones. All semblance of four-power control of Berlin had ended on July i; the Russians finished the obsequies last week by hauling down their flag from the Kommandatura building, removing Uncle Joe Stalin's picture and withdrawing their sentry...
...stand take to taking...