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Abe Krash

AttorneyChicago, IL

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Abe Krash

Abe Krash is an American attorney. He was the editor of The Chicago Maroon, the student newspaper, at the University of Chicago during the Manhattan Project. He ran afoul of Manhattan Project security regulations after the Maroon published an article about physicist and Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory director Arthur Compton. He has worked for many years as an attorney with the firm Arnold and Porter.

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