National Affairs: A CAST OF CHARACTERS

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Lee Pressman, 47, was another of the able young men who swarmed to Washington in the first days of the New Deal. Former general counsel for the WPA and for the C.I.O., Pressman admitted in 1950 that he had been a Communist, but he denied charges of espionage.

Nathan Witt, 50, was secretary of the National Labor Relations Board from 1937 to 1940, when important labor-management decisions were being made. Witt, named by Chambers as a member of the Communist cell organized by Harold Ware, invoked the Fifth Amendment. He is now a New York lawyer.

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