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In the years 1991 to 2002, when I was editor of People’s Weekly World, I often consulted with Mary Licht, historian of the Communist Party USA, on questions of fact in the CPUSA’s long, eventful history. Mary herself was a quiet, modest, slender woman never inclined to promote herself.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 1912 (UP) - That the social functions known as "Gary dinners" control absolutely the prices in the steel industry and that United States Steel Corporation is in restraint of trade through this price control and its domination of raw material, were the conclusions reported to the Stanley steel committee of the House to-day by Farquhar J. MacRae, the committee's expert accountant.