Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loyalty Check. In Newark, Frank Churak explained why he had turned in a false fire alarm: he only wanted to see if his wife would stand by him when police arrived...
...executive departments were busier than any other agencies, and quite properly, in the investigation and prosecution of Communist agents. It was the Department of Justice which staged the comic-opera search of the ship on which Stowaway Gerhart Eisler made his escape. It was also still holding his wife on Ellis Island. It was Justice which was responsible for most of the headlines with its trials of Alger Hiss, Judith Coplon and the eleven Communist leaders. It was Harry Truman who by executive order had set up a loyalty investigation of 2,500,000 Government employees. And it was Attorney...
...before taking the stand, thin, 36-year-old Frank Oppenheimer resigned his post as assistant professor of physics at the University of Minnesota and his resignation had been promptly accepted. He sat uneasily before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and talked about the mistake he and his wife Jacquinette had made twelve years before...
...crowds which had jammed the Manhattan courtroom thinned; the jury trying Alger Hiss for perjury relaxed. After ten days of bear-pit tension, the testimony of ex-Communist-Courier Whittaker Chambers and his wife was finally complete. Hulking, flat-voiced Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy hoisted himself into a sitting position on a corner of the Government table and began a careful job of legal bricklaying-matching the "pumpkin papers" and other secret documents with the originals from which they had been copied...
...pair dodged surreptitiously all over Manhattan? Judy explained that Gubichev was afraid that his wife had hired detectives to follow them. He had also "petrified" her by muttering that the NKVD might be after him. Judy had thought the whole business was very silly -particularly sitting on different seats in an all-but-empty subway car. She had never dreamed that the car behind was stacked with FBI agents...