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William Walter Remington (October 25, 1917 – November 24, 1954) was an economist employed in various federal government positions until his career was interrupted by accusations of espionage made by the Soviet spy and defector Elizabeth Bentley. He was convicted of perjury in connection with these charges in 1953, and murdered in prison in 1954. His death has been cited as one of the few murders attributable to McCarthyism.〔 〕 ==Early life and public career== He was born in New York City and raised in Ridgewood,〔"(Remington Denied Link to Red Spies. Former Federal Economist Was Serving 3-Year Term on Perjury Charges. )", ''The New York Times'', November 25, 1954.〕 in Bergen County, New Jersey, by Lillian Maude Sutherland (1888-?) and Frederick C. Remington (1870–1956).〔1920 US Census for Glen Rock, New Jersey〕 His father worked for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; his mother as an art teacher in New York.〔 Remington was admitted to Dartmouth College at age 16, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude in 1939, and earned a Master's degree from Columbia University in 1940.〔 Remington's parents were poor and demanding and he developed a somewhat unconventional and flamboyant personality. From an early age, he was drawn to radical leftist politics, and declared to his friends that he was a Communist when he was 15. In college, he became active with members of the Young Communist League, and later the Communist Party of the United States. In testimony, Remington stated that while he was a Republican when he entered college, he "moved left quite rapidly" and became a radical but was never a Communist Party or Young Communist League member at Dartmouth.〔("The Nation; Draft Arithmetic" ), ''The New York Times'', January 28, 1951. Accessed June 19, 2008. "He went to Dartmouth a Republican but 'moved left quite rapidly' and considered himself a 'radical.' He was not a member of the Communist party or Young Communist League but occasionally told other students in jest that he was a 'bolshevik.'"〕 Whether or not he ever officially joined the party later became a point of contention in his legal battles. Remington was employed in a number of posts, principally as an economist: *Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, Tennessee, September 1936 to May 1937 * Workers Education Committee, Knoxville, April to August 1937 *Junior Economist with the National Resources Planning Board, Washington, D.C., May 1940 to July 15, 1941 *Associate industrial economist in the Office of Price Administration of the Office for Emergency Management, from July 1941 to February 1942; *Assistant to the Director of the War Production Board, February 1942 to October 1943 *Assistant to the Director of Orders and Regulations Bureau in the War Production Board, October 1943 to 1946 *President's Council of Economic Advisers, March 1947 to March 1948〔Trussell, C. P. ("Exposure Hinted of Loyalty Files; Raising of Curbs on Records Is Predicted as Key Men Confer in Washington" ), ''The New York Times'', September 10, 1948. Accessed June 19, 2008.〕 For his position with the Office of Price Administration, Remington was required to undergo a loyalty-security check, which began in 1941. He admitted having been active in Communist-allied groups such as the American Peace Mobilization, but denied any sympathy with communism and swore under oath that he was not and had never been a member of the Communist Party. His leftist affiliations raised concerns, but the investigation was superficial and his security clearance was approved. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Remington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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