Word: workings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charlie Murphy arrived in Washington 15 years ago with the ink on his law degree still fresh. He went to work in the Senate legislative counsel's office writing bills in proper legal language. One of his chores was the resolution creating Senator Truman's wartime investigating committee. Some time after Mr. Truman became President, he remembered Charlie Murphy and took him into the White House as one of a dozen devotedly anonymous aides. Murphy was so anonymous that the White House Correspondents Association completely overlooked him last year when they issued invitations to the annual dinner...
Philip Maguire, 44, of Plainfield, N.J., made his entrance into Washington as a young lawyer in the NRA. From there he marched through the Government's alphabet of bureaus. He helped work out the food-stamp plan. He served on WPB. spent three years in the Army, returned to serve on the CPA, went to Greece with the first military mission. He stayed to direct Greek trade and commerce, then returned to take charge of the Administration's program for relieving unemployment. He is the President's expert on public-works programs...
George Elsey, 31, is a fresh-faced Princeton graduate who worked in Franklin Roosevelt's White House map room during the war, buckled down afterwards as a researcher for Clifford During the 1948 campaign he wrote the backgrounds and many of the punch lines for Harry Truman's speeches in his 31,500-mile campaign. He is now one of the men at work researching, rewriting and polishing the State of the Union, budget and economic messages which the President will deliver to the new session of the 81st Congress...
...swore that Hiss had been at her camp near Chestertown, Md. Alger Hiss's brother Donald denied another item of Chambers' testimony-that Soviet Agent Colonel Bykov wanted Donald to steal State documents too. Donald testified that he had not gone to work for the State Department until six months after the conversation supposedly took place...