Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...haired man whose oversized pants were held up by a money belt stuffed with $50 bills, was a study of bewildered innocence. He produced drivers' licenses identifying himself as one John Francis Brennan. But the FBI men tagged him on the spot with a fingerprint test as Robert Thompson, one of the eleven top Communist leaders who were convicted in 1949 of violation of the Smith Act. Two years ago, ordered to report to begin his three-year penitentiary term, he jumped bail, disappeared into the Communist underground...
...sugar-bowl money. When she was arrested, she had just washed a man's white sweater and spread it neatly on a towel to dry. The men stuck close to the cabin, avoided the neighbors, whiled away the time with TV and table tennis. Thompson and Steinberg had gone to some pains to alter their appearances. Thompson, who had gained about 30 Ibs., had sprouted a foppish mustache, tinted his hair and mustache strawberry blond, his eyebrows roan red. Steinberg had a fresh crew cut and an angry little mustache, was pounds thinner than he had been...
When the G-men and their prisoners arrived in San Francisco, Thompson was taken immediately to Alcatraz, began serving his long-overdue sentence. Steinberg was held for extradition to New York. The others were all charged with aiding the fugitives. The capture of Steinberg and Thompson reduces the number of missing U.S. Communists to five. Of the top leaders who have gone underground, two-National Organization Secretary Harry Winston and Illinois Chairman Gilbert Green-are still missing...
Hero Worship. In Kansas City, Mo., after falling from a 20-ft. rock wall, Robert Thompson, 41, was treated for eye and back injuries, explained that he had been so impressed by the conquest of Mt. Everest that he wanted to do some climbing himself...
...John) Carlton Ward Jr., 60, who piloted Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. for ten years until he was ousted by Founder Sherman M. Fairchild in 1949, was elected president of New York's Vitro Manufacturing Co. (chemicals, uranium processing). Since 1949, Ward has bossed Boston's Thompson Industries...