Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word Cinerama really meant "You are in danger. Come home at once." There were hairbreadth escapes; i.e., one day in Moscow while Morros was in conference with Soviet Spy Chief Lavrenty P. Beria, an incoming message accused him of disloyalty. Boris charmed the Russians into believing that the American woman who had squealed on him was merely jealous...
Last week before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Boris Morros identified the woman. She was, said he, Martha Dodd Stern, the Communist-minded daughter of William E. Dodd, onetime (1933-37) U.S. Ambassador to Germany in the Roosevelt Administration. The U.S. already knew a lot about the activities of Martha Stern and her wealthy husband Alfred, who had been hiding out in Mexico and dodging extradition and indictment as members of Jack Soble's spy network. But last week it learned more. The Sterns had flown from Mexico City on a Dutch airliner, were said...
When the vice-minister appealed to the sitdowners to end their strike, a woman in the audience held up a tear-gas canister and asked: "Is this what you use against women?" The militia used tear gas again the second night, and after routing strikers from the car barns got the trolleys moving, with guards on each. The strike was over, broken not only by a show of force, but by the government's promise to look into the strikers' complaints...
...Trouble. In Houston, Donald Earl Basham, 29, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for robbery, burglary and theft after he broke into a young woman's apartment at 2 a.m., stole some of her Scotch to wash down four tranquilizer pills, forced her for a couple of hours to help him while he looted the place, then passed...
...tons of the wheat, corn and cotton harvested last week will swell the $5.5 billion worth of farm surpluses stored in U.S. Government silos, warehouses and cold-storage vaults, which already hold more wheat than the nation consumes in a year and a pound of cheese for every man, woman, child and white rat in the country...