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In 1967 the FBI investigated the foundation's affairs, and in early July 1969 the monthly Philadelphia published a well-documented, detailed, and damning piece of investigative journalism by Greg Walter which accused Harris both of...

Within a year CS had become the lover of her American manager at work. William James Blech (later Blake) , whom she called Wilhelm at first and later Bill. He was both an investment...

AC 's contributions include rendering Fragment 286 by the Greek poet Ibykos in the manner successively of various more modern voices: John Donne , Samuel Beckett , Franz Kafka , an FBI report on Bertolt Brecht

In 1952 she acquired a job writing copy for the California American Automobile Association . In the later 1950s she worked as stenographer for a medical society, but the FBI ensured she was fired...

ESVM first drew a muted degree of interest from the FBI when she donated a single dollar towards buying tractors for the Soviet Union in 1920. When in the mid 1930s she began to talk...

The FBI filed reports on TO and her family, with such data as her father 's alleged crimes against Tsarist Russia, and pro-Communist statements by her sixteen-year-old daughter .

J. Edgar Hoover mandated the FBI to investigate TO . The FBI ensured that she was fired from her job, and two agents visited to interrogate her in April.

The FBI finally closed its file on TO (which dated from her Communist days in the 1930s).

Unlike some others, TO and her second husband remained Communists even after the Nazi-Communist pact. Jack Olsen became a union official. The demands of the party continued to compete with Tillie's family for her time...

The next month J. Edgar Hoover himself wrote to an agent in San Francisco about her. She was engaged during the 1950s in activities which the FBI judged to be subversive, and duly kept...

Their Communism made Blech and Stead vulnerable in the immediate postwar years. The House Committee for Un-American Activities issued its first subpoenas to creative people in films and allied occupations in September 1947, after gathering...

In the early 1950s TO submitted stories, mostly about family life (in such unacceptable manifestations as a husband's death, a woman's desire, a retarded son), to the Ladies' Home Journal, which seems not...

This story was chosen for New World Writing, where according to Anne Sexton (whose first story appeared in the same volume) it shines out like a miracle. It also won the year's O...