Word: bentleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Remington was cleared of charges of Communism in 1949 by the top Loyalty Review Board. The Board's check-up came after Miss Elizabeth T. Bentley, a confessed former courier for an espionage apparatus, charged that in 1943-1944 Remington supplied her with War Production Board secrets...
Under the spoon-feeding of Cartoonist Charlie Plumb, Ella Cinders had come a long way in 25 years with United Features Syndicate. From a childhood of downtrodden poverty, homely Ella had grown up into a curly-locked career girl who had married tall & handsome Bentley Patches six years ago. The wedding has turned out to be a great mistake, at least to Comic Stripper Plumb and his scriptwriter, Fred Fox. They wanted to get Ella back on the Cinderella beam and there was no place for a husband in that kind of strip...
Hiss was subpoenaed and questioned. He denied knowing Chambers. Before the grand jury could reach any conclusions, the House Un-American Activities Committee caught the scent and acted. The committee subpoenaed Elizabeth Bentley, graduate of Vassar and, like Chambers, an ex-Communist courier. She named Government officials who, she said, had passed secret documents to her. Then the committee subpoenaed Chambers. He generally corroborated Miss Bentley's story, testified that Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Harry Dexter White, whom she named, was at the least a dupe of the C.P., and repeated not all but a number...