Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When newsmen caught up with Whittaker Chambers, after yet another session before the New York grand jury investigating Communist activities, he told them that he had never met Duggan, had never received documents from him, had no personal knowledge that he was a Communist. Next day he augmented his statement, without clarifying it, by adding that he had nevertheless "found it necessary to give Duggan's name to Mr. Berle...
...Noel Field, identified last summer in testimony by Chambers as a member of a Communist apparatus. The New York Daily News quoted Alger Hiss as saying that Duggan was a very good friend of his and that he was a "victim of persecution." Hiss later denied having made the statement...
...blast to the Un-American Activities Committee, which had taken a new lease on life by proving that its espionage investigation was something more than a "red herring." California's G.O.P. Congressman Richard Nixon beat a quick, strategic retreat via a television broadcast. Said he: "Whittaker Chambers' statement clears Duggan of any implication in the espionage ring." Democratic committee members tore at Mundt like wolves snapping at a fallen fellow. Said Congressman F. Edward Hébert of New Orleans: ". . . a blunder . . . a breach of confidence." Mississippi's loudmouthed old John Rankin cried, self-righteously: "Atrocious...
Over the Mountains. A priest, who was the only Japanese to see them after death, said that their faces were "serene, calm, clear"-a statement which those who have seen hanged men would regard as doubtful...
...directing triumvirate: Olivier, Sir Ralph Richardson and Designer Director John Burrell. The board of governors had announced "an administrative reorganization." Official reason: the Old Vic will have "bigger responsibilities" next summer when it sets up a British National Theater. A member of the governing board admitted that the official statement was malarkey. "If I told the real truth, some people's feelings might be hurt...