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Whittaker Chambers

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Jay Vivian Chambers (April 1, 1901 – July 9, 1961), known as Whittaker Chambers, was an American editor who denounced his Communist spying and became respected by the American Conservative movement during the 1950s. [1]

202 relations: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Abraham George Silverman, Adlai Stevenson II, Adolf A. Berle, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Alexander Ulanovsky, Alger Hiss, American Writers: A Journey Through History, Angina, Anti-communism, Arnold J. Toynbee, Art Students League of New York, Arthur F. Burns, Arthur Koestler, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Bambi, a Life in the Woods, Bibliography of Whittaker Chambers, Blasphemy, Boar's Head Society, Boris Bukov, Brexit, Brooklyn, C-SPAN, Calvin Fixx, Can You Hear Their Voices?, Chambers (surname), Character evidence, Charles Kramer (economist), Charles Wertenbaker, Chiang Kai-shek, Clifton Fadiman, Columbia College (New York), Columbia University, Communist Party USA, Conservatism in the United States, Daily Worker, Daniel Hannan, Donald Hiss, Donald P. Hodel, Duncan Norton-Taylor, Earl Browder, Edwin Feulner, Elena Maria Vidal, Elizabeth Bentley, Elliott V. Bell, Esther Shemitz, Executive Order 9835, Federal Bureau of Investigation, ..., Felix Frankfurter, Felix Salten, Finnegans Wake, Fortune (magazine), Frank Hogan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, General counsel, George H. Nash, George W. Bush, George Will, Grand jury, Great Purge, Guy Endore, Hallie Flanagan, Harold Glasser, Harold Ware, Harry Dexter White, Harry S. Truman, Harvey Breit, Henry Collins (official), Henry Luce, Herbert Solow (journalist), House Un-American Activities Committee, Howard Moss, Ignace Reiss, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Isaac Don Levine, Isaiah Oggins, J. Peters, James Agee, James Joyce, John Abt, John Bernard (American politician), John Herrmann, John Hersey, John Shaw Billings (editor), John W. Davis, Joseph Stalin, Julian Wadleigh, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, La Follette Committee, Lauchlin Currie, Leadership Institute, Lee Pressman, Life (magazine), Lionel Trilling, List of American spies, List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, Long Island, Look (American magazine), Louis Kronenberger, Louis Zukofsky, Lynbrook, New York, Main Intelligence Directorate, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Marian Anderson, Marion Bachrach, Marxism, McCarthyism, Meyer Schapiro, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party, Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Mount Mary University, Myocardial infarction, Nathan Witt, Nathaniel Weyl, National Book Award, National Labor Relations Board, National Observer (United States), National Recovery Administration, National Review, Nazi Germany, New Deal, Nigel Dennis, Noel Field, Nye Committee, Order of the Red Star, Pacifism, Passaic, New Jersey, Pathological lying, Pennsylvania, Perjury, Perjury: The Hiss–Chambers Case, Philadelphia, Pipe Creek Friends Meetinghouse, Predictions of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Proletariat, Psychopathy, Quakers, Railroad Retirement Board, Rand School of Social Science, Rebecca West, Red herring, Reinhold Niebuhr, Resident spy, Reuben Shemitz, Richard Lauterbach, Richard Nixon, Robert Cantwell, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert M. La Follette Jr., Rockville Centre, New York, Ronald Reagan, Rudy Baker, Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, Sam Tanenhaus, Satellite state, Soong Mei-ling, South Side High School (Rockville Centre, New York), Soviet espionage in the United States, Soviet Union, Stanley Forman Reed, Statute of limitations, Stephen Salant, T. S. Matthews, The American Conservative, The Guardian, The Heritage Foundation, The New Masses, The New York Times, The Villager (Manhattan), The Weekly Standard, The World Tomorrow (magazine), Theodore H. White, Time (magazine), Time Life, United States Department of Agriculture, United States Department of Commerce, United States Department of Labor, United States Department of State, United States Department of the Treasury, Victor Perlo, Vincent Reno, Vladimir Lenin, Walter Krivitsky, War Production Board, Weldon Kees, Westminster, Maryland, Whittaker Chambers Farm, Wilder Hobson, Willi Schlamm, William F. Buckley Jr., William Saroyan, William Ward Pigman, Williams College, Woodley Mansion, Workers Party of America, Works Progress Administration, Yalta Conference, 1926 Passaic textile strike. Expand index (152 more) »

Aberdeen Proving Ground

Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) (sometimes erroneously called Aberdeen Proving Grounds) is a United States Army facility located adjacent to Aberdeen, Maryland (in Harford County).

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Abraham George Silverman

Abraham George Silverman (February 2, 1900-January 1973) was a mathematician and statistician who was a member of the Soviet Ware Group.

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Adlai Stevenson II

Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, noted for his intellectual demeanor, eloquent public speaking, and promotion of progressive causes in the Democratic Party.

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Adolf A. Berle

Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (January 27, 1895 – February 17, 1971) was a lawyer, educator, author, and U.S. diplomat.

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Agricultural Adjustment Act

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses.

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Alexander Ulanovsky

Alexander Petrovich Ulanovsky (a.k.a. Ulrich, William Joseph Berman, Bill Berman, Felik, Long Man, Nathan Sherman) (1891–1970) was the chief illegal "rezident" for Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU), who was rezident the United States from 1931 until 1934 and later, with his family, prisoner in the Soviet gulag.

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Alger Hiss

Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.

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American Writers: A Journey Through History

American Writers: A Journey Through History is a series produced and broadcast by C-SPAN in 2001 and 2002 that profiled selected American writers and their times.

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Angina

Angina, also known as angina pectoris, is chest pain or pressure, usually due to not enough blood flow to the heart muscle.

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Anti-communism

Anti-communism is opposition to communism.

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Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold Joseph Toynbee (14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975) was a British historian, philosopher of history, research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and the University of London and author of numerous books.

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Art Students League of New York

The Art Students League of New York is an art school located on West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City, New York.

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Arthur F. Burns

Arthur Frank Burns (August 27, 1904June 26, 1987) was an American economist.

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Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler, (Kösztler Artúr; 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-British author and journalist.

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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual.

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Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.

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Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher.

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Bambi, a Life in the Woods

Bambi, a Life in the Woods, originally published in Austria as Bambi: Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde is a 1923 Austrian novel written by Felix Salten and published by Ullstein Verlag.

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Bibliography of Whittaker Chambers

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Blasphemy

Blasphemy is the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred things, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable.

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Boar's Head Society

The Boar's Head Society (1910 - 1970s) was a student conversazione society devoted to poetry at Columbia University.

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Boris Bukov

Boris Yakovlevich Bukov, also Boris Bykov ("Sasha") Regiment Commissar (15 November 1935) was a member of the Communist Party member since 1919.

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Brexit

Brexit is the impending withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU).

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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C-SPAN

C-SPAN, an acronym for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, is an American cable and satellite television network that was created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service.

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Calvin Fixx

Calvin Fixx, born Calvin Henry Fix (August 1, 1906 – March 3, 1950), was a 20th-century American journalist and editor, lifelong friend of Robert Cantwell and friend of Whittaker Chambers, both fellow editors at TIME magazine.

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Can You Hear Their Voices?

Can You Hear Their Voices? A Play of Our Time is a 1931 play by Hallie Flanagan and her former student Margaret Ellen Clifford, based on the short story "Can You Make Out Their Voices" by Whittaker Chambers.

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Chambers (surname)

Chambers is a common surname of English origin.

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Character evidence

Character evidence is a term used in the law of evidence to describe any testimony or document submitted for the purpose of proving that a person acted in a particular way on a particular occasion based on the character or disposition of that person.

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Charles Kramer (economist)

Charles Kramer, originally Charles Krevisky (December 14, 1907 – September 27, 1992) was a 20th-Century American economist who worked for U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of his brain trust.

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Charles Wertenbaker

Charles Christian Wertenbaker.

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Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975), also romanized as Chiang Chieh-shih or Jiang Jieshi and known as Chiang Chungcheng, was a political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975, first in mainland China until 1949 and then in exile in Taiwan.

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Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 – June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality. He began his work with the radio, and switched to television later in his career.

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Columbia College (New York)

Columbia College is the oldest undergraduate college at Columbia University, situated on the university's main campus in Morningside Heights in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Communist Party USA

The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) is a communist political party in the United States established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America.

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Conservatism in the United States

American conservatism is a broad system of political beliefs in the United States that is characterized by respect for American traditions, republicanism, support for Judeo-Christian values, moral absolutism, free markets and free trade, anti-communism, individualism, advocacy of American exceptionalism, and a defense of Western culture from the perceived threats posed by socialism, authoritarianism, and moral relativism.

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Daily Worker

The Daily Worker was a newspaper published in New York City by the Communist Party USA, a formerly Comintern-affiliated organization.

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Daniel Hannan

Daniel John Hannan (born 1 September 1971) is a British writer, journalist and politician.

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Donald Hiss

Donald Hiss (December 15, 1906 – May 18, 1989), AKA "Donie" and "Donnie," was the younger brother of Alger Hiss, who in 1948 was accused of spying for the Soviet Union, and who, in 1950, was convicted of perjury before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).

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Donald P. Hodel

Donald Paul Hodel (born May 23, 1935) is an American former politician, who served as United States Secretary of Energy and Secretary of the Interior, and Chairman of the company FreeEats.com/ccAdvertising, which has disseminated push polls for the Economic Freedom Fund.

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Duncan Norton-Taylor

Duncan Norton-Taylor was an American journalist who was a senior editor at Time magazine and managing editor at Fortune magazine from the 1940s through the 1960s.

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Earl Browder

Earl Russell Browder (May 20, 1891 – June 27, 1973) was an American political activist and leader of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).

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Edwin Feulner

Edwin John Feulner Jr. (born August 12, 1941) served as President of the conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation from 1977 to 2013 and again from 2017 to 2018.

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Elena Maria Vidal

Elena Maria Vidal (born 1962) is a historical novelist and noted blogger living in Easton, Maryland.

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Elizabeth Bentley

Elizabeth Terrill Bentley (January 1, 1908 – December 3, 1963) was an American spy for the Soviet Union from 1938 until 1945.

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Elliott V. Bell

Elliott V Bell (September 25, 1902 - January 1983) was a former financial writer for The New York Times who managed the two successful gubernatorial campaigns for his friend, Thomas E. Dewey.

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Esther Shemitz

Esther Shemitz (1900–1986), also known as "Esther Chambers" and "Mrs.

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Executive Order 9835

President Harry S. Truman signed United States Executive Order 9835, sometimes known as the "Loyalty Order", on March 21, 1947.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Felix Frankfurter

Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882February 22, 1965) was an American lawyer, professor, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Felix Salten

Felix Salten (6 September 1869 – 8 October 1945) was an Austrian author and critic in Vienna.

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Finnegans Wake

Finnegans Wake is a work of fiction by Irish writer James Joyce.

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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune is an American multinational business magazine headquartered in New York City, United States.

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Frank Hogan

Frank Smithwick Hogan (January 17, 1902 – April 2, 1974) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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General counsel

A general counsel, chief counsel, or chief legal officer (CLO) is the chief lawyer of a legal department, usually in a company or a governmental department.

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George H. Nash

George H. Nash (born April 1, 1945) is an American historian and interpreter of American conservatism.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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George Will

George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is an American political commentator.

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Grand jury

A grand jury is a legal body empowered to conduct official proceedings and investigate potential criminal conduct, and determine whether criminal charges should be brought.

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Great Purge

The Great Purge or the Great Terror (Большо́й терро́р) was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938.

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Guy Endore

Samuel Guy Endore (July 4, 1901 – February 12, 1970), born Samuel Goldstein and also known as Harry Relis, was an American novelist and screenwriter.

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Hallie Flanagan

Hallie Flanagan Davis (August 27, 1890 in Redfield, South Dakota – June 23, 1969 in Old Tappan, New Jersey) was an American theatrical producer and director, playwright, and author, best known as director of the Federal Theatre Project, a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

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Harold Glasser

Harold Glasser (November 24, 1905 – November 16, 1992), was an economist in the United States Department of the Treasury and spokesman on the affairs of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) 'throughout its whole life' and he had a 'predominant voice' in determining which countries should receive aid.

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Harold Ware

Harold Maskell "Hal" Ware (August 19, 1889 – August 14, 1935) was an American Marxist regarded as one of the Communist Party's top experts on agriculture.

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Harry Dexter White

Harry Dexter White (October 9, 1892 – August 16, 1948) was a Soviet informant while serving as a senior U.S. Treasury department official.

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Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953), taking office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Harvey Breit

Harvey Breit (1909 - April 9, 1968) was an American poet, editor, and playwright as well as reviewer for the New York Times Book Review from 1943 to 1957.

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Henry Collins (official)

Henry Hill Collins Jr. (1905 – 1961), AKA Henry H. Collins, Jr., and Henry Collins, was an American citizen employed in the New Deal National Recovery Administration in the 1930s and later the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.

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Henry Luce

Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an American magazine magnate who was called "the most influential private citizen in the America of his day".

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Herbert Solow (journalist)

Herbert Solow (20 November 1903 – 26 November 1964) was an American journalist and co-editor of The Menorah Journal who was first a Communist fellow-traveler in the 1920s, a Trotskyist in the 1930s, and then abandoned leftist politics to work in Henry Luce's publishing empire as Fortune editor.

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House Un-American Activities Committee

The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC, or House Committee on Un-American Activities, or HCUA) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives.

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Howard Moss

Howard Moss (January 22, 1922 – September 16, 1987) was an American poet, dramatist and critic.

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Ignace Reiss

Ignace Reiss (1899 – 4 September 1937) – also known as "Ignace Poretsky," "Ignatz Reiss," He was known as a nevozvrashchenec ("unreturnable").

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) was once one of the largest labor unions in the United States, one of the first U.S. unions to have a primarily female membership, and a key player in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Isaac Don Levine

Isaac Don Levine (January 19, 1892 – February 15, 1981) was a 20t-Century Russian-born American journalist and anticommunist writer, involved with Soviet ex-spies Walter Krivitsky and Whittaker Chambers and also Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Isaiah Oggins

Isaiah Oggins (also known as Ysai or Cy) (July 22, 1898 – 1947) was an American-born communist and spy for the Soviet secret police.

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J. Peters

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James Agee

James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic.

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James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet.

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John Abt

John Jacob Abt (May 1, 1904 – August 10, 1991) was an American lawyer and politician.

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John Bernard (American politician)

John Toussaint Bernard (March 6, 1893 Bastia – August 6, 1983) was a United States Representative from Minnesota.

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John Herrmann

John Theodore Herrmann was a writer in the 1920s and 1930s and is alleged to have introduced Whittaker Chambers to Alger Hiss.

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John Hersey

John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was an American writer and journalist.

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John Shaw Billings (editor)

John Shaw Billings (1891–1975) was the first editor of Life magazine and first managing editor of Time-Life.

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John W. Davis

John William Davis GBE (April 13, 1873 – March 24, 1955) was an American politician, diplomat and lawyer.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality.

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Julian Wadleigh

Henry Julian Wadleigh (1904–1994) was an American economist and the United States Department of State official in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Juliet Stuart Poyntz

Juliet Stuart Poyntz (originally 'Points') (25 November 1886 – 1937) was an American communist and intelligence agent for the Soviet Union.

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La Follette Committee

In the United States Senate, the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee, or more formally, Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee Investigating Violations of Free Speech and the Rights of Labor (1936-1941), began as an inquiry into a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) investigation of methods used by employers in certain industries to avoid collective bargaining with unions.

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Lauchlin Currie

Lauchlin Bernard Currie (October 8, 1902 – December 23, 1993) was a Canadian-born economist.

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Leadership Institute

The Leadership Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Arlington, Virginia that teaches "political technology." The Institute was founded in 1979 by conservative activist Morton C. Blackwell.

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Lee Pressman

Lee Pressman (July 1, 1906 – November 20, 1969) was a labor attorney and earlier a US government functionary, publicly exposed in 1948 as a spy for Soviet intelligence during the mid-1930s (as a member of the Ware Group), following his recent departure from Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) as a result of its purge of Communist Party members and fellow travelers.

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Life (magazine)

Life was an American magazine that ran regularly from 1883 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000.

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Lionel Trilling

Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher.

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List of American spies

This is a list of spies who engaged in direct espionage.

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List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients

This is an alphabetized, partial list of recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, grouped by the aspect of life in which they are/were renowned.

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Long Island

Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Look (American magazine)

Look was a bi-weekly, general-interest magazine published in Des Moines, Iowa, from 1937 to 1971, with more of an emphasis on photographs than articles.

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Louis Kronenberger

Louis Kronenberger (December 9, 1904April 30, 1980) was an American literary critic (longest with Time, (1938-1961), novelist, and biographer who wrote extensively on drama and the 18th century.

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Louis Zukofsky

Louis Zukofsky (January 23, 1904 – May 12, 1978) was an American poet.

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Lynbrook, New York

Lynbrook is a village in Nassau County, New York, United States.

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Main Intelligence Directorate

Main Intelligence Directorate (p), abbreviated GRU (p), is the foreign military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (formerly the Soviet Army General Staff of the Soviet Union).

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Margarete Buber-Neumann

Margarete Buber-Neumann (1901–1989), a German communist, wrote the memoir Under Two Dictators about her imprisonment in concentration camps during World War II in both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany and testified in the so-called "trial of the century" about the Kravchenko Affair in France.

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Marian Anderson

Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) was an American singer.

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Marion Bachrach

Marion Bachrach (1898–1957) was the sister of John Abt and also a member of the Ware group, a group of government employees in the New Deal administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt who were also members of the secret apparatus of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) in the 1930s.

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Marxism

Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.

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McCarthyism

McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.

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Meyer Schapiro

Meyer Schapiro (23 September 1904 – 3 March 1996) was a Lithuanian-born American art historian known for forging new art historical methodologies that incorporated an interdisciplinary approach to the study of works of art.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party

The Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party (FL) was a left-wing American political party in Minnesota between 1918 and 1944.

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Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, also known as the Nazi–Soviet Pact,Charles Peters (2005), Five Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World, New York: PublicAffairs, Ch.

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Mount Mary University

Mount Mary University (formerly Mount Mary College) is a private, not-for-profit, Catholic liberal arts university located on an 80-acre campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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Nathan Witt

Nathan Witt (February 11, 1903 – February 16, 1982), born Nathan Wittowsky, was an American lawyer who is best known as being the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from 1937 to 1940.

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Nathaniel Weyl

Nathaniel Weyl (July 20, 1910 – April 13, 2005) was an American economist and author who wrote on a variety of social issues.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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National Labor Relations Board

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is an independent US government agency with responsibilities for enforcing US labor law in relation to collective bargaining and unfair labor practices.

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National Observer (United States)

The National Observer was a weekly American general-interest national newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company from 1962 until July 11, 1977.

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National Recovery Administration

The National Recovery Administration was a prime New Deal agency established by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in 1933.

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National Review

National Review (NR) is an American semi-monthly conservative editorial magazine focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

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New Deal

The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States 1933-36, in response to the Great Depression.

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Nigel Dennis

Nigel Forbes Dennis (16 January 1912–19 July 1989) was an English writer, critic, playwright and magazine editor.

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Noel Field

Noel Field (January 23, 1904 – September 12, 1970) was an American spy for the NKVD, whose activities before and after World War II allowed the Eastern Bloc to use his name as prosecuting rationale during the Rajk (1949) and Slánský (1952) show trials.

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Nye Committee

The Nye Committee, officially known as the Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry, was a United States Senate committee (April 12, 1934–February 24, 1936), chaired by U.S. Senator Gerald Nye (a Republican).

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Order of the Red Star

The Order of the Red Star (Орден Краснoй Звезды) was a military decoration of the Soviet Union.

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Pacifism

Pacifism is opposition to war, militarism, or violence.

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Passaic, New Jersey

Passaic is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

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Pathological lying

Pathological lying (also called pseudologia fantastica and mythomania) is a behavior of habitual or compulsive lying.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Perjury

Perjury is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters a generation material to an official proceeding.

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Perjury: The Hiss–Chambers Case

Perjury: The Hiss–Chambers Case is a 1978 book by Allen Weinstein on the Alger Hiss perjury case.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Pipe Creek Friends Meetinghouse

Pipe Creek Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Friends meeting house located at Union Bridge, Carroll County, Maryland, United States.

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Predictions of the dissolution of the Soviet Union

There were people and organizations who predicted that the USSR would fall before the eventual dissolution of the USSR in 1991.

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Presidential Medal of Freedom

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the President of the United States and is—along with the comparable Congressional Gold Medal—the highest civilian award of the United States.

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Proletariat

The proletariat (from Latin proletarius "producing offspring") is the class of wage-earners in a capitalist society whose only possession of significant material value is their labour-power (their ability to work).

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Psychopathy

Psychopathy, sometimes considered synonymous with sociopathy, is traditionally defined as a personality disorder characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egotistical traits.

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Quakers

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.

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Railroad Retirement Board

The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) is an independent agency in the executive branch of the United States government created in 1935 to administer a social insurance program providing retirement benefits to the country's railroad workers.

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Rand School of Social Science

The Rand School of Social Science was formed in 1906 in New York City by adherents of the Socialist Party of America.

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Rebecca West

Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield DBE (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer.

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Red herring

A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important issue.

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Reinhold Niebuhr

Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (June 21, 1892June 1, 1971) was an American theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years.

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Resident spy

In espionage, a resident spy is an agent operating within a foreign country for extended periods of time.

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Reuben Shemitz

Reuben B. Shemitz or Reuben Bob Shemitz (1894–1970) was a 20th-Century American attorney, older brother of Esther Shemitz, and brother-in-law of Whittaker Chambers, who testified during the Hiss Case.

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Richard Lauterbach

Standing: Prof.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.

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Robert Cantwell

Robert Emmett Cantwell (January 31, 1908 – December 8, 1978), known as Robert Cantwell, was a novelist and critic.

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Robert Fitzgerald

Robert Stuart Fitzgerald (12 October 1910 – 16 January 1985) was an American poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students."Mitgang, Herbert (January 17, 1985).

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Robert M. La Follette Jr.

Robert Marion "Young Bob" La Follette Jr. (February 6, 1895 – February 24, 1953) was a U.S. senator from Wisconsin from 1925 to 1947.

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Rockville Centre, New York

Rockville Centre is an incorporated village located in Nassau County, New York, in the United States.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Rudy Baker

Rudy Baker (born 1898, date of death unknown), a Communist Party USA (CPUSA) official, is today best known for his role as head of the CPUSA's underground secret apparatus.

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Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal

The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal is a nonprofit educational organization based out of Mecosta, Michigan.

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Sam Tanenhaus

Sam Tanenhaus (born October 31, 1955) is an American historian, biographer, and journalist.

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Satellite state

The term satellite state designates a country that is formally independent in the world, but under heavy political, economic and military influence or control from another country.

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Soong Mei-ling

Soong Mei-ling or Soong May-ling (March 5, 1898 – October 23, 2003), also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang, was a Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China, the wife of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-shek.

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South Side High School (Rockville Centre, New York)

South Side High School is the only public high school in the town of Rockville Centre, New York.

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Soviet espionage in the United States

Since the late 1920s, the Soviet Union, through its GRU, OGPU and NKVD intelligence services, used Russian and foreign-born nationals as well as Communist, and people of American origin to perform espionage activities in the United States.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Stanley Forman Reed

Stanley Forman Reed (December 31, 1884 – April 2, 1980) was a noted American attorney who served as United States Solicitor General from 1935 to 1938 and as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1938 to 1957.

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Statute of limitations

Statutes of limitations are laws passed by legislative bodies in common law systems to set the maximum time after an event within which legal proceedings may be initiated.

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Stephen Salant

Stephen W. Salant (born c. 1945) is an economist who has done extensive research in applied microeconomics (mostly in the fields of natural resources and industrial organization).

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T. S. Matthews

Thomas Stanley "T.

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The American Conservative

The American Conservative (TAC) is a bi-monthly magazine founded in 2002 and published by the American Ideas Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) organization based in Washington, D.C., which states that it exists to promote a conservatism that opposes unchecked power in government and business; promotes the flourishing of families and communities through vibrant markets and free people; and embraces realism and restraint in foreign affairs based on America's vital national interests.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Heritage Foundation

The Heritage Foundation (abbreviated to Heritage) is an American conservative public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C. The foundation took a leading role in the conservative movement during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies were taken from Heritage's policy study Mandate for Leadership.

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The New Masses

The New Masses (1926–1948) was an American Marxist magazine closely associated with the Communist Party, USA.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Villager (Manhattan)

The Villager is a weekly newspaper serving Downtown Manhattan.

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The Weekly Standard

The Weekly Standard is an American conservative opinion magazine published 48 times per year.

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The World Tomorrow (magazine)

The World Tomorrow: A Journal Looking toward a Christian World (1918–1934).

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Theodore H. White

Theodore Harold White (May 6, 1915 – May 15, 1986) was an American political journalist and historian, known for his reporting from China during World War II and accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1980 presidential elections.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Time Life

Direct Holdings Global LLC, through its subsidiaries StarVista Live, Lifestyle Products Group and Time Life, is a creator and direct marketer that is known for selling books, music, video/DVD, and multimedia products.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), also known as the Agriculture Department, is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, and food.

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United States Department of Commerce

The United States Department of Commerce is the Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth.

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United States Department of Labor

The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is a cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, reemployment services, and some economic statistics; many U.S. states also have such departments.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), often referred to as the State Department, is the United States federal executive department that advises the President and represents the country in international affairs and foreign policy issues.

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United States Department of the Treasury

The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is an executive department and the treasury of the United States federal government.

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Victor Perlo

Victor Perlo (1912–1999) was a Marxist economist, government functionary, and a longtime member of the governing National Committee of the Communist Party USA.

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Vincent Reno

Franklin Vincent Reno was a mathematician and civilian employee at the United States Army Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland in the 1930s.

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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (22 April 1870According to the new style calendar (modern Gregorian), Lenin was born on 22 April 1870. According to the old style (Old Julian) calendar used in the Russian Empire at the time, it was 10 April 1870. Russia converted from the old to the new style calendar in 1918, under Lenin's administration. – 21 January 1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist.

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Walter Krivitsky

Walter Germanovich Krivitsky (Ва́льтер Ге́рманович Криви́цкий; June 28, 1899 – February 10, 1941).

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War Production Board

The War Production Board (WPB) was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II.

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Weldon Kees

Harry Weldon Kees (February 24, 1914 – July 18, 1955) was an American poet, painter, literary critic, novelist, playwright, jazz pianist, short story writer, and filmmaker.

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Westminster, Maryland

Westminster is a city in northern Maryland, United States.

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Whittaker Chambers Farm

The Whittaker Chambers Farm, also known as Pipe Creek Farm, is a historic cluster of farm properties near Westminster in rural Carroll County, Maryland.

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Wilder Hobson

Wilder Hobson (1906–1964) was an American writer and editor for Time (1930s-1940s), Fortune (1940s), Harper's Bazaar (1950s), and Newsweek (1960s) magazines.

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Willi Schlamm

William S. (Willi) Schlamm (originally Wilhelm Siegmund Schlamm, June 10, 1904 – September 1, 1978) was an Austrian-American journalist.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative author and commentator.

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William Saroyan

William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

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William Ward Pigman

William Ward Pigman (March 5, 1910 – September 30, 1977), also known as Ward Pigman, was a former chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at New York Medical College, and a suspected Soviet Union spy as part of the "Karl group" for Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU).

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Williams College

Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States.

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Woodley Mansion

Woodley is a Federal-style hilltop house in Washington, D.C., constructed in 1801.

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Workers Party of America

The Workers Party of America was the name of the legal party organization used by the Communist Party USA from the last days of 1921 until the middle of 1929.

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Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

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Yalta Conference

The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference and code named the Argonaut Conference, held from 4 to 11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization.

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1926 Passaic textile strike

The 1926 Passaic textile strike was a work stoppage by over 15,000 woolen mill workers in and around Passaic, New Jersey, over wage issues in several factories in the vicinity.

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References

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