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Messages from Exile. Director of the underground's theory and watchdog of its discipline was, the prosecution charged, a fairly successful Athens doctor. Also on trial last week was a socialite lawyer charged with being the party's finance boss. A well-known Athenian actress was accused as one of several couriers who supplied the Communists with funds smuggled from Paris. Captured messages, many of them signed by exiled Greek Red Boss Nicholas Zachariades, showed that the Communists, outlawed as a party since 1947, had manipulated the United Democratic Left, a supposedly non-Communist political party which attracted...
...very least, they meant a subsidy to some holders of defense contracts. Southerners complained that Wilson's "distressed industry" plan might wipe out the booming South's competitive edge over New England textiles. Cried South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank, whose Senate-House "watchdog" committee launched an immediate inquiry: "I am not going to sit here and preside over the liquidation of the Southern textile industry." Added South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes: "It's nothing but a subsidy to reward the imprudent manager...
...Hoey Committee (Senate) has become the biggest watchdog on corruption in federal executive departments. Under North Carolina's frock-coated Clyde Hoey, helped especially by Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy and California's Dick Nixon, the committee last year exposed Bill Boyle and the American Lithofold Corp. This year, fortified with a $100,000 budget and eight investigators, it will tackle the sale of tankers by the Maritime Commission in 1947 to the American Overseas Tanker Corp., then headed by Joseph E. Casey, onetime Congressman from Clinton, Mass. It will also delve further into the activities...
...Night Watch. In Chicago, someone broke into Charles Racanelli's tavern, took $300 in cash, $1,000 worth of liquor and his 145-lb. great Dane watchdog...
Slansky arranged the successful coup of 1948, supervised the purges that followed, used his power as secretary general to install his own people in vital jobs. He was also Moscow's watchdog, and even kept an eye on President Gottwald himself (who, when he has one drink too many, has a habit of talking sarcastically about Communist bigwigs). At Cominform meetings it was Slansky, not Gottwald, who represented Prague...