Word: stachel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason I didn't see him again . . ." Johnson began. MacInnis objected, but Judge George B. Harris let Johnson continue. "The reason I didn't see him again was because at the national committee meeting at which Harry Bridges was introduced . . Jack Stachel [one of the eleven convicted U.S. Communist leaders] said to the meeting that in the future Harry Bridges would not be brought to committee meetings for security reasons . . ." i.e., so that he could continue his West Coast labor work unhampered by the Communist label...
Dennis quickly learned the new doctrine and stared into the tunnel now yawning before him. Who would be chosen for Browder's job? There were some fairly smart men around headquarters: Jack Stachel, a little man with the face of a heron who had been in & out of the underground; cold, Kewpie-like John Williamson, national labor secretary. But Moscow's hand fell on the shoulder of U.S.-born Eugene Dennis...
...their clients all fell "within the classes discriminated against": Henry Winston and City Councilman Benjamin Davis were Negroes. The others had been "workers": Irving Potash was a furrier; Robert Thompson, a machinist; Gus Hall, a lumberjack; John Williamson, a patternmaker; Gilbert Green, a metalworker; Carl Winter, a draftsman; Jack Stachel, a capmaker; John Gates, now an editor of the Daily Worker (see PRESS), was a former construction laborer...
...year sentence for contempt of Congress (TIME, July 7, 1947); tall, Harvard-trained Benjamin J. Davis, New York City's only Negro (and only Communist) councilman; bald John Williamson, the party's labor secretary, out on bail pending a deportation hearing (TIME, Feb. 23) ; stocky Jack Stachel, little known outside the party but one of its veteran propagandists, also tapped for deportation; Mississippi-born Henry Winston, a moonfaced Negro, the C.P.'s organizational secretary...
...Department of Justice investigators believe that Earl Browder is a mere frontman, are not sure whom to call Joseph Stalin's chief deputy in the U. S. Nominated for this honor last week (by ex-Communist Benjamin Gitlow, in a book called I Confess) was comrade Jack Stachel, who recently skedaddled from Manhattan to parts unknown...