Word: wares
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...told of joining the party through the National Student League in January 1933, while he was a graduate student in economics at Columbia. When, he went to work in Washington for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in late 1933, he was assigned to a secret AAA Communist cell by Harold Ware, named by Chambers and other witnesses as the boss of the Washington Communist apparatus. Weyl, a deliberate, conservative witness, was positive that he had seen Hiss at "more than two" cell meetings while Hiss was an assistant counsel to AAA. Others in the cell, said Weyl, included Lee Pressman, John...
...years before the era detailed by Chambers. In 1934, said Weyl, the AAA cell devoted itself mostly to studies of Marxism, and was composed of hand-picked bright young men whose prospects in Government were better than average. Weyl did not know Chambers. According to Chambers' testimony, Harold Ware picked these same bright young men for his apparatus in 1936, and provided the direct link between them and J. Peters, head of the Communist underground...
Open Break. Weyl lost contact with the cell in mid-1934, he told the committee, after persuading Harold Ware to allow him to give up his AAA job. For a while Weyl went to the Middle West as an organizer for the Communist United Farmers League, then turned principally to writing and speechmaking. He broke openly with the party at the time of the Nazi-Soviet pact in 1939, "culminating a period of doubt and indecision." But not until the outbreak of the Korean war (five months after Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury in his second trial) did Weyl...
Books, women's clothing, and gift-ware have been the most popular items this year. Winter coats, usually making up a large proportion of sales, have slumped slightly...
...Trend. Goodson & Todman have always been great trend riders. When they specialized in radio they had half-a-dozen giveaway shows. Todman's talent for giveaways was epitomized by Goodman Ace, who once encountered him rushing to a studio with an armful of aluminum ware. When Todman lost his grip on one of the pots & pans, Ace called to him: "Hey, you dropped your script...