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HAVANA (Reuters) - A gay dissident and a transsexual woman married on Saturday in what was said to be a first for Cuba, then draped themselves in the rainbow flag of gay pride and rode through the streets of Havana.
In a simple civil ceremony surrounded by much hoopla, Ignacio Estrada, 31, and Wendy Iriepa, 37, signed a marriage certificate, exchanged rings and kissed before a state official, who wished them much happiness.
It was not technically a same-sex marriage, which is prohibited in Cuba, and drew no interference from authorities
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A Prospective Trial of COXEN Chemotherapy Prediction
This study has been withdrawn prior to enrollment.
(Lack of funding/resources)
University of Virginia
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Linda R Duska, University of Virginia
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First received: October 20, 2010
Last updated: June 5, 2014
Last verified: June 2014
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The purpose of this study is to determine if the COXEN algorithm, using the diagnostic device Affymetrix GeneChip, is able to predict which chemotherapies will be best for treatment of recurrent or persistent ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer.
|Ovarian Neoplasms Fallopian Tube Neoplasms
|Device: COXEN analysis for chemotherapy prediction
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment
Masking: Open Label
|Official Title:
|A Prospective Trial of COXEN Chemotherapy Prediction in Persistent and Recurrent Ovarian, Fallopian Tube, and Peritoneal Carcinomas
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- overall response rate [ Time Frame: 12 months ]patient will have CT scans and CA 125 drawn to track response to chemotherapy
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- overall survival [ Time Frame: subject lifetime ]patient will be tracked for life
|Study Start Date:
|October 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2013
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|October 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Platinum Sensitive
Treatment with platinum-based therapy; COXEN prediction model chooses secondary agent if doublet
Device: COXEN analysis for chemotherapy prediction
Using the affymetrix genechip along with the COXEN algorithm the subject's treatment will be determined
Other Name: Affymetrix genechip
Platinum resistent
single agent based on Coxen prediction model
Device: COXEN analysis for chemotherapy prediction
Using the affymetrix genechip along with the COXEN algorithm the subject's treatment will be determined
Other Name: Affymetrix genechip
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The current proposal seeks to apply and extend this novel genomic prediction technique to finding better chemotherapeutic options for recurrent ovarian cancer using individual patients' gene-expression signatures of chemosensitivity. The utility of the COXEN technique has been validated and found to accurately predict 1) the chemosensitivity of an independent panel of 40 bladder cancer cell lines; 2) activity of each of the >45K candidate compounds in the NCI-60 drug screening database, which resulted in the identification of a highly-effective novel compound for bladder cancer and patients' responses and survival on 12 historical clinical trials of combination chemotherapy. In particular, the GEMs of breast cancer can be used to stratify both clinical response and overall patient survival with a striking difference between the predicted responders vs. predicted non-responders in 5 independent chemotherapeutic trials of breast cancer. The next step is to test the prediction model in recurrent ovarian cancer.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 95 Years (Adult, Senior)
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|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- age greater than 18
- diagnosis of recurrent, persistent, refractory ovarian, fallopian or primary peritoneal cancer
- tumor tissue, ascites or pleural fluid available for biopsy
- life expectancy greater than 6 months
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- patients with borderline or low malignant histologies
- patients with a history of other malignancies within last 5 years
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01228942
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01228942
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University of Virginia
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|Study First Received:
|October 20, 2010
|Last Updated:
|June 5, 2014
Keywords provided by Linda R Duska, University of Virginia:
ovarian cancer
fallopian tube cancer
primary peritoneal cancer
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Ovarian Neoplasms
Fallopian Tube Neoplasms
Endocrine Gland Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Ovarian Diseases
Adnexal Diseases
Genital Diseases, Female
Genital Neoplasms, Female
Urogenital Neoplasms
Endocrine System Diseases
Gonadal Disorders
Fallopian Tube Diseases
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Directions: In a bowl, toss the shallot slices with the flour.
Test a shallot slice to assure the oil is sufficiently hot enough to fry the shallots.
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Mince a shallot onion and brown slightly with two spoonfuls of butter.
Mince and fry a shallot and add it, then a large glass of red wine, a few drops of lemon juice.
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I have windows 7 installed in my internal HD and I like to boot BT4 from my external HD(seagate goflex pro). I like to boot windows 7 as my primary OS without the external HD plug in.
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I have windows 7 installed in my internal HD and I like to boot BT4 from my external HD(seagate goflex pro). I like to boot windows 7 as my primary OS without the external HD plug in.
any advice?
I have done same thing on my laptop, and it works.
- Boot up from DVD
- Click install.sh
- When asked where to install, do not select SDA (or any other variant of your primary HD). Your external should show up as SDB. Create partition as full hard drive or only partial, your choice.
- If you want to install GRUB, install it on SDB (not SDB1 or HD0 or HDA or any variant of your primary HD)
- After installation is complete, reboot, go to your BIOS and change device boot priority. I have CD/DVD as 1st, USB as 2nd, internal HD as 3rd.
- Enjoy.
Now, it you want to boot from external hd (BT4 that you just installed), plug in your HD and reboot. It should boot into BT. If you want to go into Windows, power off (if you are in BT), remove your external HD and boot-up normally straight into Windows.
I used 2.5 IDE HD, 250GB, and it works just fine. I even mounted on the back of my laptop dislay. That way it's always secure in it's place, and not moving around on my desk. One draw-back with my set-up, is that 2.5 inch HD is using 2 of my USB ports, and it only leaves me with one available USB port (I got 3 total).
Try it with-out GRUB. It should work.
Edit: I followed my own advise, it didn't work, will re-trace my steps to see where the problem is.
@ BushRat,
I was able to follow your instruction to install to an external GoFlex Pro 500GB drive. It of course set up GRUB somewhere, I guess on my WinVista32 c:\ drive.
I could then successfully boot into either BT4 or Windows. However, when I removed the external HD and rebooted it would give me a GRUB error of "21" and boot would fail.
I followed the instructions here
without success...
I did not use pendrive to install BT, but rather this
The only way I could get Vista to successfully boot with the BT usb hard drive remove was to execute Bootrec.exe /FixMbr through a Win Vista recovery console. Of course now my external usb hard drive with BT on it will not boot at all, but at least I'm back in my Win box successfully.
My real: question is this. Would you be kind enough to explain to me step by step how to NOT install grub and get this thing to work?
What I would like to have is my Vista would boot normally UNLESS I changed the BIOS manually to boot from USB, in which case my external USB hard drive would then boot into BT. Alternatively, I would like to have GRUB or something similar that would boot into Windows without the BT drive attached and would also boot into BT by manual selection at boot time when the actual BT external USB drive was attached.
I have worked for days on this without success. Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks is advance.
@ BushRat again,
Actually there is an error in my previous post. I DID NOT us linuxliveusb to create the BT external hard drive, but rather used your advice upthread of booting from a BT live CD and then doing install.sh from the desktop.
The rest of my post is correct.
Thanks for any detailed steps you can provide that will boot from CD, install BT to external hard drive, and NOT use GRUB.
EDIT: I could not het BT to boot up without GRUB. Everything else is same.
Posting screen snapshots may be delayed of cancelled alltogether due to unforseen circumstances beyond my control.
Here's how I got this to work:
1) Boot from Live BT DVD
2) startx
3) Click "Install.sh" on the desktop
4) Select Guided mode
5) Select the appropriate external usb hard drive
6) Click "Advanced"
7) Select the location of the same external usb hard drive from step 5 above as the location to install the Grub bootloader
To boot from your regular OS change your bios to boot from where ever your normally boot from. To boot your external usb hard drive into BT plug your usb into your computer, change the bios to boot from usb and enjoy.
By the way, thanks, in a twisted sort of way for letting me figure this out on my own. It was frustrating for a while but I learned something by you allowing me to become "quieter."
Again, many thanks....


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This is a new project i have been working on, it includes 3 files all of which have a grungy antique mood. Everything was created in AE, no prerendered files (accept one texture.)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_1JgjJaAgA
I searched for old film idents and short openers on VH and close-to found nothing, so i thought this would be a good idea.
Anyways i would like some feedback before i submit it, please be honest! Thanks -Graham
i swear i posted this in the "item discussion" section…
mods can go ahead and delete this. ill re-post.
Could you criticize me?
I can't, nice one:)
Looks really nice, should do well
Agree with two posts above. Countdown is fine and openers are awesome.
Cool thanks guys
Your openers are great, but that countdown is a little blurry in my opinion.


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Cigarette sellers in Paris, unlikely to be
smoked out any time soon.
Photograph: Franck Perevel/APHere is something that cigarettes can tell you about the political health of a nation.
For a while now, countries and sometimes cities have been introducing smoking bans in restaurants and bars. The arguments usually centre on the dangers of passive smoking, but since 1) a majority of people do not smoke and 2) smokers, even in New York and Spain, seem happy to comply, the bans get steadily more widespread.
Except, for now, in France. The land of the Gauloise has decided people can keep puffing away with their Pernod with the withdrawal of a proposal for a total ban.
Intriguingly, it has a lot to do with tear gas - or to be precise the protests over the job contract that was supposed to make employers more open to hiring under-26s on the basis that they would also be easier to fire.
For the link, look at the front cover of this week's Economist. It greets readers with a curious sight - an early renaissance painting (that may be a Bosch) where horned and winged devils boil a cauldron of monks on an open fire. More smoke.
The headline reads "Another great week for Europe". Inside (subscription required), the newspaper goes on to explain why it meant this a touch ironically. A majority so slim for Romano Prodi in Italy that Communist coalition members will be able to derail economic reforms; plus the French government's backpedalling over the under-26s CPE job contract.
The Guardian's European editor, Nicholas Watt, wrote on this blog a few weeks ago that France was essentially ungovernable until the 2007 presidential election. The withdrawal of the CPE is certainly adding to the impression that the French government is becoming one giant lame duck.
For evidence of that, just look to the smoking ban. Rather than go into battle against smokers and tobacconists in the manner it took on students and unions over the CPE, the now weakened government has retreated. A Reuters report points out the decision on "delaying" the smoking ban came just two days after it backed down on the CPE.


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There are many reasons why UNC has an enduring reputation as the premier preparer of teachers in Colorado. An example is a unique aspect of a teacher prep course where students tutor elementary school children in the Loveland trailer park where they live.
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UNC's chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, has been named an Honor Chapter for its outstanding activities in 2013-14. It's the eighth consecutive year the local chapter has earned the award.
Only 12 of the society's 600 chapters nationally were recognized for the caliber of chapter projects that reflect the Sigma Delta Pi mission of honoring excellence in the study of the Spanish language, contributing to cultural understanding and upholding the goals of the society.
Efraín Garza, associate professor of Hispanic Studies, is the local chapter's advisor and a previous recipient of the Jose Martel Award, which is given once every three years to the society's most outstanding advisor.
With its national office at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, Sigma Delta Pi is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies, the nation's only certifying agency for college and university honor societies.
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University of Northern Colorado Professor Richard M. Hyslop and colleague Corina Brown will discuss their cutting-edge research and preliminary findings on developing cannabis-based cancer treatments as featured speakers at the American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition in San Francisco, Aug. 10-14.
Hyslop has been involved in cancer research for 35 years and is leading a team of scientists from UNC in the research on behalf of Nuvilex in developing targeted cannabis-based cancer treatments through the use of the company's live cell encapsulation technology. The goal of the research is to develop an approach to treating "solid" tumors, initially those of the brain and pancreas, with cannabinoids of the cannabis plant.
Nearly $300,000 from the National Science Foundation will provide grant funding to build the framework for an innovative teacher preparation partnership between the Colorado School of Mines and the University of Northern Colorado.
The new program will focus on increasing the number of highly qualified science, technology, engineering, and math teachers in response to a U.S. presidential goal to prepare 100,000 new STEM teachers over the next decade. The Mines-UNC initiative draws on the strengths of the two research institutions in providing Mines students with a path to becoming a science or math teacher.
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At least 112 people were killed in the fire which tore through the seven-storey factory operated by Tazreen Fashions, just outside the capital Dhaka.
Firefighters have recovered 100 bodies, fire brigade operations director Major Mohammad Mahbub said, and another 12 people who had suffered injuries after jumping from the building to escape died later in hospital.
He said firefighters recovered 69 bodies from the second floor of the factory alone. He said most of the victims had been trapped inside, with no emergency exits leading outside the building.
And he warned that the death toll could rise as the search for victims continues.
Many workers who had taken shelter on the roof of the factory were rescued, but firefighters were unable to save those who were trapped inside.
The fire broke out on the ground floor, which is used as a warehouse, and spread quickly to the upper floors.
"The factory had three staircases, and all of them were down through the ground floor," Mr Mahbub said. "So the workers could not come out when the fire engulfed the building.
"Had there been at least one emergency exit through outside the factory, the casualties would have been much lower."
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Monday turned out to be rather bittersweet for Sam Lafferty.
It was a day in which the assistant hockey coach at Brown University – the school where the Deerfield Academy standout will be playing in two years – sent him a congratulatory text for being named to the New England Prep School Athletic Council's 2014 Boys Ice Hockey All-New England Team.
That piece of good news was followed within the hour by a message that added insult to injury. On Sunday, Lafferty and his Big Green teammates learned that they had come up short of their goal of earning a spot in the Large School bracket of the NEPSAC Boys Ice Hockey Tournament. On Monday, they learned the definition of "short." Deerfield missed the eighth and final seed to Proctor Academy – by .001 in the RPI rankings.
"Losing out on the final seed is bad enough," said Lafferty, who led the Big Green in scoring this season with 55 points on 21 goals and 34 assists, "but losing out by point, zero, zero, one … now that's a real bummer."
Happier times are definitely ahead for this Deerfield skater, who may well have reached the coveted century mark in scoring had the Big Green made its way into the tournament field. The native of Hollidaysburg, Pa., finished his three-year career with 95 points, on 38 goals and 57 assists. Late this summer, he will take his talents to the British Columbia Hockey League for a one-year test run before venturing on to a collegiate career at Brown University.
"Being named to this all-star team is really something," said Brendan Creagh, who has served as Lafferty's mentor for the past three years. "There are 60 prep school hockey teams throughout the New England area and so you can just imagine how many hockey players that would be. (Deerfield had 24 players on its roster this season, so estimate close to 1,500 players).
"Then, of that number, you select only 12 players … six representing the East and six representing the West," added Creagh, who pointed out that no coach could vote for his own player, "and that's a tremendous honor. And Sam's well deserving … he's not only a tremendous hockey talent, but he's also a terrific leader and a true competitor."
Being named to the NEPSAC All-Star Team places Lafferty in an elite fraternity of Deerfield hockey players such as Ben Lovejoy, Alex Killorn, Antoine Laganiere, Tyler Kolarik and Rob Fried. Two other Deerfield players from this year's team – Trevor Yates and Ryan Wolter – received some votes in the All-Star balloting, but not enough to make the team.
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Indiana Governor Mike Pence has laid out a vision for state lawmakers in 2014.
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Republicans say Pence painted with a broad brush. Democrats say he's more in love with being governor than doing governor.
"I believe in traditional marriage and I have long held the view that the people rather than unelected judges should decide matters of such great consequence to the society," Pence said.
He asked lawmakers to decide the question on the definition of marriage, an issue that brought hundreds of Hoosiers to the Statehouse this week, by the end of this year.
"Instead of using the bully pulpit to set this issue aside to deal with real problems, he took the opportunity to lead us further into that particular conflagration," said House Minority Leader Scott Pelath (D-Michigan City).
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"In November, one out of every eight jobs created in this country was created right here in Indiana," the governor said.
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Inter president Erick Thohir has confirmed that he won't be selling his share in DC United despite reports claiming otherwise.
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Nathan Witt
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Witt (center), with NLRB Chair J. Warren Madden (left) and NLRB Chief Counsel Charles Fahy in 1937
February 11, 1903
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|February 16, 1982
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Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
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Nathan Witt (February 11, 1903 – February 16, 1982), born Nathan Wittowsky, was an American lawyer who is best known as being the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from 1937 to 1940. He resigned from the NLRB after his communist political beliefs were exposed and he was accused of manipulating the Board's policies to favor his own political leanings. He was also investigated several times in the late 1940s and 1950s for being a spy for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. No evidence of espionage was ever found.
Early life[edit]
Witt was born February 11, 1903, into a Jewish family on the Lower East Side of New York City.[1][2] His father changed the family name to Witt shortly after his birth.[2][3] His college education was interrupted several times by the need to earn a living, but he graduated in 1927 from New York University.[1]
Angered by what he perceived as the judicial mistreatment and illegal execution of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927, he drove a taxi cab for two years to earn money for law school.[3][4] He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1932,[1][3] specializing in labor law.[1] He attended Harvard shortly after Alger Hiss had left the school, and he was a friend of Donald Hiss, a Harvard Law classmate and Alger Hiss's younger brother.[2]
Government career[edit]
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)[edit]
Witt joined the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) in July 1933.[2][5] His friend, Lee Pressman, recommended him for the job.[3][6][7] According to accusers Whittaker Chambers, Lee Pressman, and Elizabeth Bentley, Witt—along with John Abt, Charles Kramer, Alger Hiss, and Nathaniel Weyl, among others—were part of the so-called "Ware group," a clandestine Communist Party USA group formed by AAA economist Harold Ware.[8][9] Chambers also alleged that Witt became leader of the group after Ware died in an automobile accident in August 1935.[8][10] Pressman said the men merely met to study and discuss left-wing political theory, but Chambers described it as a Soviet-controlled cell dedicated to committing espionage.[8] Historian David M. Kennedy, assessing a half-century's evidence about the case, concurred with Pressman's assessment in 2001.[11]
There is widespread disagreement as to whether Witt was actually a Communist Party member or not. Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. observed that Chambers never provided evidence of Witt's party membership, just uncorroborated accusation.[12] Labor historian Leon Fink agrees.[13] Labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein, however, concluded that Witt "probably" was both a member of the Communist Party and held communist ideals,[14] but historian Ronald Schatz has asserted that Witt's communist sympathies did "not necessarily" mean Party membership.[15]
Witt never hid his communism and made it well-known to others from his earliest days in the government.[12] Chambers told Adolf A. Berle, then Assistant Secretary of State, about Witt's involvement in the "Ware group" in 1939.[7] Berle later said that "to be blunt about it, Mr. Witt's statements and sympathies were so well known that what Mr. Chambers had said added nothing to anything that wasn't public knowledge at the time."[7] William S. Leiserson, an NLRB Board member, knew Witt held communist beliefs almost from the first days after Leiserson joined the Board.[16] There is general agreement among professional historians that Witt's communist views did not affect his work and did not change the outcome of any policy choices made by government agencies.[12][17]
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)[edit]
Witt joined the legal staff of the "first" National Labor Relations Board in February 1934.[18] The National Labor Relations Act became law in June 1935, creating the "second" (permanent) NLRB. Witt was named the NLRB's assistant chief counsel in December 1935.[19] He exerted a great deal of influence in the Review Section,[20] the division of the NLRB which reviewed transcripts of NLRB hearings in labor disputes, revised transcripts to emphasize points of law, reviewed draft decisions of examiners for adherence to NLRB policy and law, and made oral reports to the three members of the Board. He chose (with the approval of the Board) the attorneys who staffed the Review Section, assigned cases to attorneys, and checked the drafts of Board decisions for technical accuracy.[20] Witt recommended Pressman for a job as a trial examiner at the NLRB in 1936.[18]
He was named Secretary (the highest nonappointed bureaucratic office at the NLRB) of the Board in October 1937.[20] The enormous workload and tremendous expansion in the number of personnel at the NLRB made Witt the agency's most powerful individual.[20] He attended Board meetings, took Board minutes, prepared and served Board decisions ordering union organizing elections, granted and denied requests for oral testimony from employers, oversaw each Board member's appointments and administered the office and oversaw the staff of 250.[20] He was the Board's chief liaison to Congress and oversaw preparation and submission of the Board's budget.[20] He was the sole supervisor of the Board's 22 regional offices, overseeing the roughly 225 personnel in the field.[21] He alone exercised the authority to authorize a hearing in the case of unfair labor practice (ULP) or election cases, and he alone reported on these cases (in oral, not written) fashion to the Board.[21] Almost all correspondence, telephone contact, and telegraph contact between the regional offices and the Board passed through his office first, and his office collected nearly all the information coming in from the field regarding elections, ULPs, settlements, strikes, enforcement issues, informational inquiries, and the development of new policies.[22]
Witt's communism was the cause of much dispute within the NLRB and eventually led to his resignation as Board Secretary. The NLRB was under intense legal, media, congressional, and public criticism in 1938 and 1939 for what many people saw as overreaching.[23] In July 1939, the House of Representatives created the Special Committee to Investigate the National Labor Relations Board (popularly known as the "Smith Committee" after its chairman, conservative Democratic Rep. Howard W. Smith) to investigate the NLRB.[24] The Smith Committee received testimony from hundreds of witnesses, conducted a nationwide survey regarding the impact of the NLRB, and questioned NLRB officials at length about the agency's alleged anti-business and anti-American Federation of Labor/pro-Congress of Industrial Organizations biases.[24] In December 1939, Board Member Leiserson testified that he believed Witt held too much power at the NLRB, that Witt had influenced the NLRB's decisions in favor of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and that Witt's far-left views were unacceptable.[25] Leiserson testified that he had repeatedly voiced his concerns to Board Chairman J. Warren Madden, but that Madden and Board member Edwin S. Smith had allied to prevent any attempt to rein in or fire Witt.[25] Later testimony revealed that an internal NLRB study had backed Leiseron and that Madden and Smith had suppressed it,[26] and that Witt had assisted Madden in secretly building public and expert support for the NLRB (expending federal funds in lobbying against Congress).[27] Madden attempted to defend Witt.[28] By September 1940, the Smith Committee was accusing other NLRB employees, such as chief economist David J. Saposs, of harboring communist ideas.[29] It was clear that neither Madden nor Witt could continue at the NLRB much longer. President Franklin D. Roosevelt named University of Chicago economics professor Harry A. Millis to be the new chairman of the NLRB in November 1940 after Madden's term on the Board expired in August.[30] Witt resigned from the NLRB on November 18, 1940, although his resignation was not accepted until after Millis was sworn in on November 27.[31] He ended his work at the Board on December 10.[32] Later that month, Witt joined Board member Edwin S. Smith, former Board associate general counsel Thomas I. Emerson, and four other NLRB attorneys in denying Smith Committee testimony that they were members of the Communist Party or had followed the CPUSA line in their work.[33]
Private sector career[edit]
After leaving the NLRB, Witt joined with Harold I. Cammer (founder of the National Lawyers Guild) to form the law partnership of Witt & Cammer. Later joined by Lee Pressman to become Pressman, Witt & Cammer, the firm became one of the most prominent left-wing labor law firms in the country.[34] He briefly represented the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (which would later become the United Steel Workers of America) in 1941.[35] In 1955, he left the firm to become legal counsel to the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.[36] When the union merged with and became a division of the United Steel Workers in the 1960s, Witt was retained as associate counsel for the new division.[36]
Witt was involved in numerous labor union disputes and labor-related free speech cases in the 1940s and 1950s. He represented members of the College Teachers Union (a predecessor to the modern Professional Staff Congress union at the City College of New York) when they were accused in 1941 of being communists by the Rapp-Coudert Committee.[37] He briefly served as legal counsel to the International Fur & Leather Workers Union in 1944 in a major due process case.[38] He was the lead attorney for the Seamen's Joint Action Committee, a CIO-backed insurgent group which allied with three CIO longshoremen's unions to challenge International Longshoremen's Association president Joseph Ryan.[39] He also represented several members of the Teachers Union accused of being communists in 1950 and 1952.[40] (At the time, the Teachers Union was a local union representing New York City public schools teachers. It had been ejected by the American Federation of Teachers for being communist-controlled, and in the 1950s, it was part of the United Public Workers of America. It would later rejoin the American Federation of Teachers in the early 1960s and merge with another local to become the United Federation of Teachers.)
In 1950, the U.S. State Department revoked singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson's passport as a means of preventing him from traveling overseas and continuing his left-wing political work. Witt was Robeson's first attorney and initiated Robeson's eight-year battle to regain his passport.[41]
Allegations as communist[edit]
On August 3, 1948, in testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Whittaker Chambers named Witt as a member of the "Ware Group."[42] When called before a one-man subcommittee of HUAC (whose sole member was Representative Richard Nixon) on August 20, Witt denied knowing "J. Peters" (ostensibly the head of the Soviet Union's political operations in the United States), Chambers, or Alger Hiss.[43] Along with Abt and Pressman, Witt invoked First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights when refusing to answer HUAC questions.[43] Lee Pressman, also testifying that day, forced the subcommittee to admit that it was not accusing the men of espionage but rather being communists seeking to infiltrate the government (which was not a crime).[43] A few weeks later, former Daily Worker editor turned anti-communist Louis F. Budenz testified that the CPUSA considered Witt a member.[44] Federal law enforcement officials debated prosecuting Witt in late 1948—not for being a communist, a spy, or for committing espionage, but under a contempt of Congress charge for asserting his Fifth Amendment rights before the committee and refusing to answer its questions.[45] No prosecution was ever made. Witt later testified in February 1949 before a federal grand jury investigating illegal CPUSA activities in the United States.[46]
Testifying again before HUAC in 1950, Lee Pressman named Witt as a member of the CPUSA and the "Ware group."[47] Speaking before a HUAC subcommittee on September 1, Witt once more denied that he had engaged in espionage, again invoked his Fifth Amendment privileges when asked about his CPUSA and "Ware group" membership, and refused to say whether he knew Chambers, Bentley, or scores of others.[48]
In February 1952, writer Nathaniel Weyl named Witt as a "Ware group" member before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security.[49]
Witt's last appearance before Congress came in 1955. Harvey Matusow, former CPUSA member, had previously testified before Congress against his former comrades. However, in 1954, Matusow published a book, False Witness, in which he recanted his anti-communist testimony. In April 1955, the Subcommittee on Internal Security learned that Witt had obtained a cash donation from the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union to help Matusow get his book published.[50] Witt was called before the Subcommittee on Internal Security on April 18 to testify about his involvement in the Matusow affair. Witt freely admitted his legal role in obtaining the publication fee.[50]
Senator James O. Eastland, subcommittee chair, then implied there was something suspicious about Witt's real name being Wittowsky.[50] Witt engaged in a shouting match with Eastland, accusing the senator of antisemitism.[50] Witt denied he had anything to hide. Eastland demanded to know about his membership in the CPUSA and the "Ware group," and Witt invoked his Fifth Amendment rights again.[50] When a subcommittee member asked Witt if he had sent white lilies to Chambers (implying that this constituted a death threat), Witt categorically denied doing so.[50]
Personal life[edit]
Nathan Witt married Anna Laura Phillips on June 19, 1930. They had two children, Hal born about 1937 and Leda born in 1939.
Later life[edit]
He retired as associate counsel for the miners' division of the United Steel Workers in 1975.[36]
Witt died on February 16, 1982, at Rockefeller University Hospital in Manhattan in New York City.[36]
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- ^ a b c d Strategy and Tactics of World Communism..., p. 796.
- ^ a b c d Jowitt and Jowitt, p. 46.
- ^ a b c d Irons, p. 125.
- ^ Auerbach, p. 183.
- ^ Burnham, p. 104.
- ^ Gall, p. 40.
- ^ a b c Gross, The Making of the National Labor Relations Board...", p. 144.
- ^ a b c Haynes and Klehr, p. 63.
- ^ Gross, The Making of the National Labor Relations Board...", p. 142.
- ^ Chambers, p. 272, 294, 334, 335, 342, 344, 346, 379, 456, 466, 502fn, 542, 543, 545, 552, 563.
- ^ Kennedy, p. 211.
- ^ a b c Schlesinger, p. 235-236.
- ^ Fink, p. 220.
- ^ Lichtenstein, p. 33.
- ^ Schatz, p. 90.
- ^ Dubofsky, p. 156.
- ^ Irons, p. xii.
- ^ a b Gross, The Making of the National Labor Relations Board...", p. 143.
- ^ "Named Labor Board Aides," New York Times, December 4, 1935.
- ^ a b c d e f Gross, The Making of the National Labor Relations Board...", p. 111.
- ^ a b Gross, The Making of the National Labor Relations Board...", p. 111-112.
- ^ Gross, The Making of the National Labor Relations Board...", p. 112.
- ^ Gross, The Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board..., p. 34-40.
- ^ a b Gross, The Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board..., p. 151-180.
- ^ a b "Leiserson in Feud," New York Times, December 12, 1939; "Green Says Inquiry Shows NLRB Biased," New York Times, December 21, 1939.
- ^ Stark, "Methods of NLRB Indicated in Study Made By Own Men," New York Times, March 22, 1940.
- ^ Stark, "Madden Defends NLRB on Lobbying," New York Times, February 9, 1940; Stark, "NLRB Rounded Up List of Witnesses to Back Labor Act," New York Times, February 21, 1940.
- ^ Barkley, "Madden Declares NLRB Record Best and Defends Witt," New York Times, February 2, 1940.
- ^ "Links Saposs, Brooks to NLRB Red Talk," New York Times, September 28, 1940.
- ^ Hurd, "Roosevelt Names Dr. Millis to NLRB, Replacing Madden," New York Times, November 16, 1940.
- ^ "Split in Two-Man Board Balks NLRB Resignation," New York Times, November 21, 1940; "Millis Is Sworn In As NLRB Chairman," New York Times, November 28, 1940.
- ^ "Witt Ends Work With NLRB," New York Times, December 12, 1940.
- ^ "NLRB Employees Deny Any Communist Ties," New York Times, December 24, 1940.
- ^ Heard, p. 159.
- ^ "Defense Profit Aim Laid to Bethlehem," New York Times, March 25, 1941.
- ^ a b c d "Nathan Witt, Labor Lawyer; Ex-Secretary of the N.L.R.B.," New York Times, February 20, 1982.
- ^ "School Union Ends Fight on Subpoenas," New York Times, February 14, 1941; "Subpoenas Served in Teacher Inquiry," New York Times, February 15, 1941; "College Teachers to Fight Inquiry," New York Times, February 20, 1941.
- ^ "Fur Trade Argues 'Right to Fire' Case," New York Times, October 29, 1944.
- ^ Horne, "CIO Backs Rebels," New York Times, October 14, 1945; Resner, "Owners Are Silent," New York Times, October 15, 1945; Horne, "Warren Is Beaten in Longshore Feud," New York Times, October 20, 1945; "Deadlock on Pier Contract Seen," New York Times, October 24, 1945; "Pier Insurgents Win Court Order Blocking Ryan on New Contract," New York Times, October 26, 1945; "Demand for 3-Man Arbitration Panel Snarls Efforts to Settle Longshoremen's Dispute," New York Times, November 3, 1945; "Dock Workers Win 20% Pay Increase," New York Times, January 1, 1946.
- ^ "Jansen Questions 6 More Teachers," New York Times, April 25, 1950; "Board in a Tumult Over School Cases," New York Times, May 10, 1950; Illson, "Board in Tumult Over 8 Teachers," New York Times, February 8, 1952; "8 Teachers Deny Board's Charges," New York Times, February 21, 1952.
- ^ "Robeson Asks Court to Lift Passport Ban," United Press International, December 20, 1950.
- ^ "Two Hiss Brothers Deny Red Charges," New York Times, August 4, 1948.
- ^ a b c Trussell, C. P. (21 August 1948). "Pressman, Abt, Witt Refuse to Answer Spy Ring Questions". New York Times.
- ^ Morris, "Communists Held Hiss to Be Member, Budenz Testifies," New York Times, August 27, 1948.
- ^ Phillips, "Washington Debating Value of 'Spy Trials'," New York Times, September 12, 1948; "Prosecution Aimed at 5 in Red Inquiry," United Press International, October 3, 1948.
- ^ "Nathan Witt Is Heard," New York Times, February 24, 1949.
- ^ Trussell, "Pressman Names Three in New Deal As Reds With Him," New York Times, August 29, 1950.
- ^ Trussell, "Abt, Witt, Kramer Defy House Group," New York Times, September 2, 1950.
- ^ "Writer Calls Hiss Red Cell Member," New York Times, February 20, 1952.
- ^ a b c d e f Baker, "Aid for Matusow on Book Depicted," New York Times, April 19, 1955.
- Auerbach, Jerold S. Unequal Justice: Lawyers and Social Change in Modern America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
- Baker, Russell. "Aid for Matusow on Book Depicted." New York Times. April 19, 1955.
- Barkley, Frederick R. "Madden Declares NLRB Record Best and Defends Witt." New York Times. February 2, 1940.
- "Board in a Tumult Over School Cases." New York Times. May 10, 1950.
- Burnham, James. The Web of Subversion: Underground Networks in the U.S. Government. New York: J. Day Co., 1954.
- Chambers, Whittaker. Witness. New York: Random House, 1952.
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- "Deadlock on Pier Contract Seen." New York Times. October 24, 1945.
- "Defense Profit Aim Laid to Bethlehem." New York Times. March 25, 1941.
- "Demand for 3-Man Arbitration Panel Snarls Efforts to Settle Longshoremen's Dispute." New York Times. November 3, 1945.
- "Dock Workers Win 20% Pay Increase." New York Times. January 1, 1946.
- Dubofsky, Melvyn. The State and Labor in Modern America. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
- "8 Teachers Deny Board's Charges." New York Times. February 21, 1952.
- Fink, Leon. In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
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- Gall, Gilbert J. Pursuing Justice: Lee Pressman, the New Deal, and the CIO. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1999.
- "Green Says Inquiry Shows NLRB Biased." New York Times. December 21, 1939.
- Gross, James A. The Making of the National Labor Relations Board: A Study in Economics, Politics, and the Law. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1974.
- Gross, James A. The Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board: National Labor Policy in Transition, 1937-1947. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1981.
- Haynes, John Earl and Klehr, Harvey. Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000.
- Heard, Alex. The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South. New York: Harper, 2010.
- Horne, George. "CIO Backs Rebels." New York Times. October 14, 1945.
- Horne, George. "Warren Is Beaten in Longshore Feud." New York Times. October 20, 1945.
- Hurd, Charles. "Roosevelt Names Dr. Millis to NLRB, Replacing Madden." New York Times. November 16, 1940.
- Illson, Murray. "Board in Tumult Over 8 Teachers." New York Times. February 8, 1952.
- Irons, Peter H. The New Deal Lawyers. Reprint ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.
- "Jansen Questions 6 More Teachers." New York Times. April 25, 1950.
- Jowitt, William Allen and Jowitt, Earl. The Strange Case of Alger Hiss. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953.
- Kennedy, David. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2001.
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- Lichtenstein, Nelson. Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II. Reprint ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
- "Links Saposs, Brooks to NLRB Red Talk." New York Times. September 28, 1940.
- "Millis Is Sworn In As NLRB Chairman." New York Times. November 28, 1940.
- Morris, John D. "Communists Held Hiss to Be Member, Budenz Testifies." New York Times. August 27, 1948.
- "Named Labor Board Aides." New York Times. December 4, 1935.
- "Nathan Witt Is Heard." New York Times. February 24, 1949.
- "Nathan Witt, Labor Lawyer; Ex-Secretary of the N.L.R.B." New York Times. February 20, 1982.
- "NLRB Employees Deny Any Communist Ties." New York Times. December 24, 1940.
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- "Pier Insurgents Win Court Order Blocking Ryan on New Contract." New York Times. October 26, 1945.
- "Prosecution Aimed at 5 in Red Inquiry." United Press International. October 3, 1948.
- Resner, Lawrence. "Owners Are Silent." New York Times. October 15, 1945.
- "Robeson Asks Court to Lift Passport Ban." United Press International. December 20, 1950.
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- "School Union Ends Fight on Subpoenas." New York Times. February 14, 1941.
- "Split in Two-Man Board Balks NLRB Resignations." New York Times. November 21, 1940.
- Stark, Louis. "Madden Defends NLRB on Lobbying." New York Times. February 9, 1940.
- Stark, Louis. "Methods of NLRB Indicated in Study Made By Own Men." New York Times. March 22, 1940.
- Stark, Louis. "NLRB Rounded Up List of Witnesses to Back Labor Act." New York Times. February 21, 1940.
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- Trussell, C.P. "Abt, Witt, Kramer Defy House Group." New York Times. September 2, 1950.
- Trussell, C.P. "Pressman, Abt, Witt Refuse to Answer Spy Ring Questions." New York Times. August 21, 1948.
- Trussell, C.P. "Pressman Names Three in New Deal As Reds With Him." New York Times. August 29, 1950.
- "Two Hiss Brothers Deny Red Charges." New York Times. August 4, 1948.
- "Witt Ends Work With NLRB." New York Times. December 12, 1940.
- "Writer Calls Hiss Red Cell Member." New York Times. February 20, 1952.


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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian authorities have ordered a theater to suspend its production of the classic European play Hedda Gabler, which a semi-official news agency described as "vulgar" and "hedonistic."
The Fars news agency on Wednesday published photographs of the play in which a man and a woman appear to be on the verge of a kiss -- an outrageous scene in the Islamic Republic, where physical contact between unrelated men and women is banned.
"Considering the furor created by some media representatives and cultural officials, and in order to prevent disturbing public opinion and due to concerns of the authorities, the performance of Hedda Gabler has been stopped for now," the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance said in a statement carried on the ISNA news wire.
The ban, imposed before a performance on Tuesday night at the City Theater, would be reviewed by the ministry, it said. The play has been running at the theater since January 5.
Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's 1890 drama, translated into Farsi, follows the fraught relations between the newly married Hedda, her husband and another man, leading to a tragic finale. It is widely considered a classic and the lead role is coveted by actresses worldwide as one of the most demanding in theater.
"Hedda Gabler, which is adapted from a western play and is based on nihilistic and hedonistic ideas and was performed in a very vulgar and inappropriate way for the public, was stopped," Fars said.
The ban is the latest example of the clash between strict Islamic moral norms and a desire by many highly educated Iranians to experience arts from around the world.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's chief of staff has been condemned by many fellow conservatives for speaking out in favor of the arts. Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaie last month criticized "some senior Shi'ite clerics" for claiming that music is banned by Islam.
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The YMCA of Indiana County hopes to combat day campers' summer learning loss with a new literacy initiative.
Around 300 campers will read several books a week at the YMCA's summer day camp beginning June 10.
If they read at least 5,000 books by summer's end, the campers will get to dump buckets of "goo" on the heads of camp directors and staff members, according to Shawn Sebring, the YMCA's senior program director.
"When kids end the school year, they don't keep learning," Sebring said. "Most children regress as much as two or three months. We wanted to do something more, particularly with reading."
Middle school students will read to the youngest campers from books loaned by Indiana Area School District. Elementary-age campers will be encouraged to read a chapter a day from books loaned by Indiana University of Pennsylvania's libraries. The Lifesteps mobile library will pick up the books from the libraries and serve as the check-out service for campers.
"The campers will have a big variety to choose from," Sebring said.
"Lifesteps has been surveying students to see what students are interested in reading, so we have the right variety of books to keep kids interested."
Sebring hopes to survey parents at the beginning and end of camp to see if the literacy program encourages students to continue to learn over the summer months.
"Just because we're putting a book in a kid's hand doesn't mean they're going to want to open it," Sebring said. "We have a number of questions that we're going to ask about keeping the kids from regressing and hopefully improving their attitude towards reading."
Registration packets for summer camp are available at the YMCA of Indiana County or online at ycamp.weebly.com/registration.html.