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Rebel's Home. Frankie was the son and namesake of Francis X. Waldron. Around the turn of the century, Waldron Sr. left his home in New Jersey to try his fortunes in the West, tried prospecting in Alaska, drifted back to Seattle and in 1904 married Nora Vieg, daughter of a Minnesota farmer of Norwegian antecedents, at the First Methodist Church. Frankie was born the next year...
...were not good for U.S. communism. Organized labor, which had once been so tolerant of the whole business, had reacted violently against it. The party which had once controlled a good chunk of the C.I.O. unions, retained desperate control in only two big ones: the electric workers and the West Coast longshoremen. The alien cast of communism's face became plain for everyone to see. The disclosure of Communist espionage sent Reds scuttling in every direction...
People outside the office saw little of him. Every morning, a bespectacled chauffeur-bodyguard knocked on the sixth-floor door of his apartment at 420 West 119th Street (near Columbia University), escorted him down to a Chrysler sedan and drove him to the office. In the evening the chauffeur took him home again in the same solicitous fashion...
Technically, the Russians had the power to keep it up indefinitely, and for all the West knew, they might try to do just that. But the fact was that the blockade had embarrassed the Russians more than it had the West. Since the Western powers refused to let any trade pass into the Russian zone while the blockade was on, the economic situation in Russia's Germany has become increasingly serious. East Berlin's Communist Mayor Friedrich Ebert last week publicly proposed that trade between the two sections of the city be resumed. Behind the scenes, Germans...
...West remained cagey and noncommittal. It seemed content to sit back and let Russia make the first move. Whatever the Russians tried to do, Allied airmen last week proved that they could go on supplying Berlin until Joseph Stalin laid his cards face-up on the table (see below...