Word: underground
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the committee issued an interim report on its work and pursued new leads. After a long hunt for him, it caught up with J. Peters, a man with a Groucho Marx likeness who, Chambers said, was the Communist underground boss who introduced him to Hiss. Confronted by Chambers and asked if he knew him, Peters refused to answer on the grounds that he might incriminate himself. He gave that same answer to some 30 other questions. But he did admit that he knew Earl Browder...
...Trieste the Cominform had publicly pointed a pistol at Tito, and cocked it with a click the world could hear. The man with the gun was thickset, rasp-voiced Vittorio Vidali, Cominform boss in Trieste. He had spent a quarter century in the Communist underground. Wherever he went, murder followed...
During the war, Bernhard fought ably with the Dutch army underground. The Dutch people took to him, as did their Queen. He became one of Wilhelmina's closest advisers and greatest favorites. Something of the playboy before the war, even taking a cocktail on Sundays, he settled down to a quiet, domestic postwar existence with Juliana at rambling, pleasant Soestdijk Palace. The household has the flavor of Greenwich, Conn. The Lippe-Biesterfelds like bridge, talky dinner parties, go to bed by 11. Each time Juliana expected a child, the nation waited excitedly to hear whether...
...Emancipated Spirits. But the greater accomplishment of the Lanny Budd novels is their evocation of the intellectual world in which the New Deal had its being. It is a world divided into good people-writers, painters, musicians, Socialists, New Dealers, honest workingmen, heroic underground warriors, and emancipated spirits generally-and bad people, such as moneygrubbers, gigolos, anti-Semites, businessmen (with exceptions), and of course Fascists and their sympathizers...
...Filth. Through the super-secret hocus-pocus common to all police states, an old friend put me in touch with a member of the Paraguayan underground, an attractive girl of about 28. "Lola" (that is not her name) is a member of the Movimiento Revoludonario Febrerista, a militant, left-wing organization corresponding to Peru's APRA...