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...cigarette after cigarette as he told of joining the party through the National Student League in January 1933, while he was a graduate student in economics at Columbia. When, he went to work in Washington for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in late 1933, he was assigned to a secret AAA Communist cell by Harold Ware, named by Chambers and other witnesses as the boss of the Washington Communist apparatus. Weyl, a deliberate, conservative witness, was positive that he had seen Hiss at "more than two" cell meetings while Hiss was an assistant counsel to AAA. Others in the cell, said...
...Washington Communists which both Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley gave the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1948. Weyl's testimony, however, was in the nature of a foundation, for he was describing a period two years before the era detailed by Chambers. In 1934, said Weyl, the AAA cell devoted itself mostly to studies of Marxism, and was composed of hand-picked bright young men whose prospects in Government were better than average. Weyl did not know Chambers. According to Chambers' testimony, Harold Ware picked these same bright young men for his apparatus in 1936, and provided...
...took the idea of a third major league too seriously. For one thing, there are obviously not enough first-class ballplayers to go around even for two major leagues. But it was undoubtedly true that P.C.L., an AAA (top classification) minor league, could improve its game both aesthetically and financially if it could force the big leagues to give up their privilege of drafting one player a year from each club at a flat price...
Like many another smart young man who followed the Communist line, sharp-eyed, sharply dressed Attorney Lee Pressman did very well for a long time. Har-vardman Pressman launched his leftward-turning 'career in Henry Wallace's AAA back in 1933, ended up as chief counsel of the C.I.O. He held the post for twelve years. But though he was a skilled labor lawyer, his fellow-traveling finally became too much for Phil Murray; 2½ years ago Murray tearfully threw...
This week, hauled before the congressional committee, he reluctantly consented to name three men who had been fellow Communists in the '30s-John Abt, Nathan Witt and Charles Kramer, three other former New Deal job holders in Wallace's AAA. This, however, was as far as he wanted to go. He apparently hoped it was far enough to get back to a new law practice among loyal Americans, with an honorable scar to bare to the clients...