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Nathan Witt
Nathan Witt (February 11, 1903 – February 16, 1982) 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== Nathan Wittowsky was born February 11, 1903, into a Jewish family on the Lower East Side of New York City.〔''Strategy and Tactics of World Communism...'', p. 796.〕〔Jowitt and Jowitt, p. 46.〕 His father changed the family name to Witt shortly after his birth.〔〔Irons, p. 125.〕 His college education was interrupted several times by the need to earn a living, but he graduated in 1927 from New York University.〔 Angered by what he perceived was 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.〔〔Auerbach, p. 183.〕 He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1932,〔〔 specializing in labor law.〔 He attended Harvard shortly after Alger Hiss had left the school, and he was a friend of Donald, a Harvard Law classmate and Alger Hiss' younger brother.〔
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