Word: wadleigh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thin, bushy-haired man who wore a rumpled white shirt, a badly fitting blue suit, and thick-lensed glasses. An excited whispering broke out in the courtroom as he took the stand. He was Henry Julian Wadleigh, whom Chambers had identified as a onetime member of the Communist apparatus in Washington. Though he had refused to answer questions by the House Un-American Activities Committee on the ground that he might incriminate himself, he had obviously come to court in a mood to tell...
...Rich Fountain." Had he ever given documents to anyone else? "Yes," said Henry Julian Wadleigh, "on some occasions I gave them to Whittaker Chambers." The courtroom murmured at this buttressing of Chambers' testimony, and Wadleigh seemed to enjoy the sound...
...diction grew richer as he began examining documents handed him by Murphy (a move which Murphy evidently made to prevent any implication that Wadleigh, not Hiss, might have stolen the pumpkin papers from the State Department files). The witness said he had never seen them before. Of one, he said: -'. . . it is a sufficiently rich fountain . . . an unusually rich fountain that I would have been interested in had I seen...
...other was Henry Julian Wadleigh, 44, former State Department economist. A nervous, bushy-haired man, son of an Episcopal minister, father of three small children, Wadleigh lives in a still unfinished log cabin he is building in Vienna...
Political Sophisticate. But intense, Hungarian-born Anna Rosenberg is on her way as a master politician. She began politicking at 17 at Wadleigh High, a girls' school where she managed to head up-and off-a strictly masculine rebellion against compulsory military training for high-school students. But she later learned the trade all the way from Tammany ward heeling to the Governor's mansion. Years ago she learned that high-sounding central Government jobs may involve more politics than production-or praise...