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John and Abt
" John Abt, general counsel of the Communist Party USA, was one of the first attorneys to represent Davis for her alleged involvement in the shootings.
* Marion Bachrach, sister of John Abt ; office manager to Representative John Bernard of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party.
In addition to The New York Times Company, the Justice Department named the following defendants: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, president and publisher ; Harding Bancroft and Ivan Veit, executive vice presidents ; Francis Cox, James Goodale, Sydney Gruson, Walter Mattson, John McCabe, John Mortimer and James Reston, vice presidents ; John B. Oakes, editorial page editor ; A. M. Rosenthal, managing editor ; Daniel Schwarz, Sunday editor ; Clifton Daniel and Tom Wicker, associate editors ; Gerald Gold and Allan Siegal, assistant foreign editors ; Neil Sheehan, Hedrick Smith, E. W. Kenworthy and Fox Butterfield, reporters ; and Samuel Abt, a foreign desk copy editor.
She married 1st 30 July 1881 in Boston, Suffolk, MA to John F. Canning, a Physician, son of John and Mary Canning, born Abt.
Characteristic and popular parlour songs include " Home, Sweet Home ," composed by Henry R. Bishop with lyrics by John Howard Payne, " The Old Arm Chair " by Henry Russell, " When the Swallows Homeward Fly " by Franz Abt, " Kathleen Mavourneen " composed by Frederick Nicholls Crouch with lyrics by Marion Crawford, " The Lost Chord " composed by Arthur Sullivan with lyrics by Adelaide A. Proctor, " Take Back the Heart " by Claribel ( Mrs. Charlotte Barnard ), " Oh Promise Me " by Reginald de Koven, " I Love You Truly " and " A Perfect Day " by Carrie Jacobs-Bond, and " The Rosary " by Ethelbert Nevin.
John Abt hired him for the Senate Civil Liberties Subcommittee ( the LaFollette Committee ).
This group included Alger Hiss, John Abt, and Lee Pressman.
On its legal staff were Lee Pressman, Alger Hiss and John Abt ( later named by Elizabeth Bentley as one of her contacts ).
For several of them were so placed in the New Deal agencies ( notably Alger Hiss, Nathan Witt, John Abt and Lee Pressman ) that they were in a position to influence policy at several levels.
After his death, attorney John Abt married Jessica Smith, Ware's widow.
Although Pressman made no mention of having himself conducted intelligence-gathering activities, his 1950 testimony provided the first corroboration of Chambers ' allegation that a Washington, DC communist group around Harold Ware existed, with federal officials Nathan Witt, John Abt and Charles Kramer named as members of this party cell.
John Jacob Abt ( May 1, 1904, Chicago – August 10, 1991, Hudson, New York ) was an American lawyer and politician.
During Lee Harvey Oswald's interrogation by the Dallas Police on the evening of 22 November 1963, pending his arraignment for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, he requested the services of Mr. Abt:
* New York FBI report, 9 April 1944, John Jacob Abt FBI file 100-236194, serial 6.
* The Warren Commission Report, Volume X-Testimony of John J. Abt
* John J. Abt and Michael Myerson, " Advocate and Activist: Memoirs of an American Communist Lawyer ," University of Illinois Press ( November 1993 ), ISBN 0-252-02030-8
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.
Marion Bachrach ( 1898 – 1957 ) was the sister of John Abt and also a member of the Ware group, a group of government employees in the New Deal administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt who were also members of the secret apparatus of the Communist Party of the United States ( CPUSA ) in the 1930s.
The meetings were held in the apartment of John Abt in New York City and Bentley was introduced to four individuals identified as Victor Perlo, Charles Kramer, Harry Magdoff and Edward Fitzgerald.
: On the date specified I went to the apartment of John Abt, was admitted by him to his apartment and there met four individuals, none of whom I had ever seen before.

John and chief
* 1676 – Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.
Within a few months, the right to exercise the regency over his infant son, John V Palaiologos, and the position of Andronikos'all-powerful chief minister and friend John Kantakouzenos led to the outbreak of a destructive seven-year civil war.
In this capacity he negotiated several treaties, one of the most important being with Cherokee chief John Ross, which was concluded in 1861.
One of the chief commanders at both Crecy and Poitiers was John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, mentioned above.
The chief advocate and driving force for improving public health in Chicago was Dr. John H. Rauch, M. D., who established a plan for Chicago's park system in 1866, created Lincoln Park by closing a cemetery filled with festering, shallow graves, and helped establish a new Chicago Board of Health in 1867 in response to an outbreak of cholera.
The Commons on 12 October 1659, cashiered General John Lambert and other officers, and installed Fleetwood as chief of a military council under the authority of the speaker.
Its first meeting was held at York in 1831 ; and Brewster, along with Babbage and Sir John F. W. Herschel, had the chief part in shaping its constitution.
In 1295 John, on the urgings of his chief councillors, entered into an alliance with France, known as the Auld Alliance.
John R. Miller, was Hearst president and chief executive officer from 1975 to 1979.
Aguirre was fired from his job with the SEC when, as lead investigator of insider trading allegations against Pequot Capital Management, he tried to interview John Mack, then being considered for chief executive officer at Morgan Stanley.
The chief theological opponents of iconoclasm were the monks Mansur ( John of Damascus ), who, living in Muslim territory as advisor to the Caliph of Damascus, was far enough away from the Byzantine emperor to evade retribution, and Theodore the Studite, abbot of the Stoudios monastery in Constantinople.
His first major recognition came with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado ; his new stature led to his selection as chief architect for the John F. Kennedy Library in Massachusetts.
As the influential result of his position as the chief cartoon artist for Punch ( published 1841 – 1992, 1996 – 2002 ), John Tenniel, through satirical, often radical and at times vitriolic images of the world, for five decades was and remained Great Britain ’ s steadfast social witness to the sweeping national changes in that nation ’ s moment of political and social reform.
HOPE was first proposed to White House chief of staff John Sununu in June 1989 to create enterprise zones, increase subsidies for low-income renters, expand social services for the homeless and elderly, and enact tax changes to help first-time home buyers.
* John Brown ( Cherokee chief )
* John M. Walker, Jr. ( born 1940 ), former chief judge of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Regarding the CIA's refusal to inform the FBI about Mihdhar and Hazmi, author Lawrence Wright suggests the CIA wanted to protect its turf and was concerned about giving sensitive intelligence to FBI Agent John P. O ' Neill, who Alec Station chief Michael Scheuer described as duplicitous.
Therefore, its chief designer, Dr. John Pinkerton, designed the machine to have multiple input / output buffers.
As programming chief, Robert W. Pittman recruited and managed a team for the launch that included Tom Freston ( who succeeded Pittman as CEO of MTV networks ), Fred Seibert, John Sykes, Carolyn Baker ( original head of talent and acquisition ), Marshall Cohen ( original head of research ), Gail Sparrow ( of talent and acquisition ), Sue Steinberg ( executive producer ), Julian Goldberg, Steve Lawrence, Geoff Bolton studio producers and MTV News writers / AP Liz Nealon, Nancy LaPook and Robin Zorn, Steve Casey ( creator of the name " MTV " and its first program director ), Marcy Brahman, Ronald E. " Buzz " Brindle, and Robert Morton.
Sir John Call, member of Parliament and the Royal Society, and former chief engineer of the East India Company, stated the advantages of Norfolk Island in a proposal for colonization he put to the Home Office in August 1784: “ This Island has an Advantage not common to New Caledonia, New Holland and New Zealand by not being inhabited, so that no Injury can be done by possessing it to the rest of Mankind … there seems to be nothing wanting but Inhabitants and Cultivation to make it a delicious Residence.
An important Gnostic text, the Apocryphon of John, reports that the chief archon caused the flood because he desired to destroy the world he had made, but the First Thought informed Noah of the chief archon's plans, and Noah informed the remainder of humanity.
In early 2005, Gordon Buck, John Crane Inc .’ s chief engineer for Field Operations in Baton Rouge, LA, examined the repair records for a number of refinery and chemical plants to obtain meaningful reliability data for centrifugal pumps.
The other chief incidents of his pontificate were his disputes with King Edward III of England as a result of the latter's encroachments on ecclesiastical jurisdiction, as well as with the kings of Castile and Aragon ; his fruitless negotiations for reunion with the Armenians and the Byzantine emperor, John VI Kantakouzenos ; and the commencement of Cola di Rienzo's agitation in Rome.

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