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    Whittaker Chambers (born Jay Vivian Chambers; April 1, 1901 – July 9, 1961) was an American writer and intelligence agent. After early years as a Communist...
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    subpoenaed Whittaker Chambers on August 3, 1948. Chambers, too, was a former Soviet spy, by then a senior editor of Time magazine. Chambers named more...
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  • 2018. Chambers, Whittaker (May 1952). Witness. New York: Random House. pp. 26–31, 204, 332–336, 347fn. ISBN 9780895269157. Whittaker Chambers, Testimony...
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  • Commonweal article by Whittaker Chambers) Chambers, Whittaker (1964). Cold Friday. Random House. ISBN 0-394-41969-3. Chambers, Whittaker. "National Review...
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    and persecution faced by Jews in Europe. An English translation by Whittaker Chambers was published in North America by Simon & Schuster in 1928, and the...
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    The Whittaker Chambers Farm, also known as the Pipe Creek Farm, is a historic cluster of farm properties near Westminster in rural Carroll County, Maryland...
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    later life, he worked as a lecturer and author. On August 3, 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a former US Communist Party member, testified under subpoena before...
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  • "Esther Chambers" and "Mrs. Whittaker Chambers," was a pacifist American painter and illustrator who, as wife of ex-Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers, provided...
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    Krivitsky; his assassination influenced the timing and method of Whittaker Chambers's defection a few months later. Reiss was born Nathan Markovich Poreckij...
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  • in May 1952, is a best-selling book of memoirs by American writer Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961), which recounts his life as a dedicated Marxist-communist...
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    Semmes, Bowen & Semmes. He was the son of President Grover Cleveland. Whittaker Chambers considered him critical to the successful outcome of the Hiss Case...
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    Retrieved February 11, 2011. "White House Freedom Medal Set for Whittaker Chambers". The New York Times. February 22, 1984. Archived from the original...
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    networks in Washington, DC, during 1937-1938, withheld by courier Whittaker Chambers from delivery to the Soviets as protection when he defected. They...
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  • Catholics L. Brent Bozell and Garry Wills. The former Time editor Whittaker Chambers, who had been a Communist spy in the 1930s and then turned intensely...
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  • government in the 1930s, run first by Harold Ware (1889–1935) and then by Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961) after Ware's accidental death on August 13, 1935. Harold...
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    Stephen J. Spingarn questioned Whittaker Chambers, an admitted former Soviet espionage agent, about Harry Dexter White: "Chambers ... told me that he didn't...
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    Cantwell married Mary Elizabeth Chambers, known as Betsy, a teacher, on February 2, 1931: she (no relation to Whittaker Chambers) was a cousin of Lyle Saxon...
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    first female columnist Robert Cantwell, writer, editor 1936–1941 Whittaker Chambers, writer, senior editor 1939–1948 Richard Corliss, film critic since...
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  • Fitzgerald.[citation needed] On August 3, 1948, Whittaker Chambers testified before HUAC: MR. CHAMBERS: The apparatus was organized with a leading group...
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  • "Terrorist Brigade." (This phrasing was followed in his own memoirs by Whittaker Chambers, an American spy for the Soviets.) In 1902, Grigory Gershuni founded...
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    Communist, chambers 'mentor'... It is not unlikely that the man was Gyula Alpari..." Stephan Koch writes, "It is through Whittaker Chambers that we know...
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  • subpoena before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), Whittaker Chambers identified Peters as a spy. Later that month, Peters appeared under...
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  • journalist and editor, lifelong friend of Robert Cantwell and friend of Whittaker Chambers, both fellow editors at Time magazine. All three were either Marxist...
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  • retrieved 2017-08-27. Chambers, Whittaker (1952). Witness. Random House. ISBN 0-89526-571-0. Sam Tanenhaus, Whittaker Chambers, New York: Random House...
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    Hunger and Revolt. Burck was close friends with Alexander Calder, Whittaker Chambers (husband of ASL classmate Esther Shemitz), Langston Hughes, Meyer...
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    hearing, featuring "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss. August 27 – Whittaker Chambers states that Alger Hiss was a communist on...
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    Is it Superman – in the comic strip or the Nietzschean version?" Whittaker Chambers wrote what was later called the novel's most "notorious" review for...
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  • contacts with Soviet intelligence. Despite public accusations by Whittaker Chambers and others, Duggan's loyalty was attested to by such prominent people...
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  • Janus received the Whittaker Chambers Award from the National Review Institute – an award opposed by the family of Whittaker Chambers, which caused the...
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  • was involved in espionage). Courier for the group at the time was Whittaker Chambers. Browder oversaw the efforts of Jacob Golos and his girlfriend, Elizabeth...
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