Word: affidavit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entirely different. The Communist Party is not a political party in the strict sense of the word - it's simply a fifth column for the Soviet Union." Earlier this year, Sweets resigned as president of the Radio & Television Directors' Guild rather than sign an anti-Communist affidavit. And Counterattack reeled off a list of Communist-front organizations which he had supported. Said Sweets, in a typical party-liner's defense: "It is not loyalty to the U.S. that is really in question. It is, rather, loyalty to reaction-loyalty, I am convinced in my case...
Next the major points in dispute are discussed--the Injunction, the Closed Shop, the Non-Communist Affidavit, Jurisdictional Disputes, Secondary Boycotts etc. The history of the injunction is given, the reasons for the unions' opposition to it, the possible alternatives such as compulsory arbitration or plant seizure in the case of national emergencies are discussed...
...year-old Mimi, lives in the dingy room with Erato, but he is a poor substitute for Nico. Vacillating, weak-chinned Mimi is often sullen and bitter because the government kicked him out of his longtime job in a local bank when he refused to sign an anti-Communist affidavit, but Mamma Erato has no use for his tiresome expostulations on the subject. "We mind our own business," she snaps, and Mimi shuts...
Clear Provision. By week's end, be-leagured David Lilienthal had a public change of heart. Hereafter, he declared, the AEC would demand an anti-Communist affidavit from all applicants. The private National Research Council (which had been picking the fellows for AEC) agreed to this procedure. Said Lilienthal, completing his change of front: "I have no question at all that we should not provide public funds for anyone who advocates the overthrow of this government by force or violence . . . whether [the work] is secret or non-secret." Just to make doubly sure, O'Mahoney announced he would...
...whole-hearted repeal of Taft-Hartley. If Administration leaders had been alert enough to compromise at the right moment, they could have put through a bill which might have repealed such legislative larceny as the ban on the closed shop even if it retained items like the non-communist affidavit and the union financial reports. They missed their opportunity; it will now be increasingly difficult to pass any new law with the opposition unified...