Word: checked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a Red-fearing woman in Pine Bluff, Ark. sent Congressman Martin Dies a check for $100. This did not surprise Mr. Dies. But, as a Congressional investigator, he can spend only appropriated funds, so he had to return the gift. In his great hunt for un-Americans, Martin Dies is used to receiving and refunding thousands of donated dollars. Once an 82-year-old beneficiary of Social Security telegraphed SSB to give Martin Dies $362 due her. His take-&-return runs as high as $800 in one day, runs highest when he makes radio speeches announcing that...
...Jerry Voorhis of San Dimas, Calif., a little Leftist, was placed on the Dies committee last February to counterbalance its Red-hunting chairman. Jerry Voorhis soon was more appalled by his new view of U. S. Communists and Nazis than by the antics of Martin Dies. Having come to check and scoff, the new member remained to respect the work if not the chairman of the committee. But last week Mr. Voorhis suddenly drew back, cried: "I can't vote for that...
...about stopping at a swank hotel, the answer soon comes clear: "Comrade Lenin would say, 'The prestige of the workers must be upheld.' We cannot go against Comrade Lenin." But they hastily order "the smallest, dirtiest room in the hotel" when Moscow sends Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) to check up. She is an unsmiling young Russian, with a delightful Swedish accent, who announces that love is a chemical reaction, wants to know at once how much steel the Eiffel Tower contains. At Count Leon's (Melvyn Douglas) smart bachelor apartment, Ninotchka shocks his staid old butler by asking...
...this year, are all but foolproof. They cost as little as $1,098 new, far less at secondhand, may be hired at 4? per seat per mile. In one such, Langewiesche flew from New York to Key West. The cost of fuel, oil, hangars, a standard 20-hour engine check...
...America for given those who stood against entry into the last war. Here and there a professor who was flared as "yellow" or a "traitor" between 1916-1918 is now being rehired. In the last year or so a great university has sent a widow the check for the last salary of a professor fired because he did not support the American involvement in the last European war. Most objectors, however, were broken at the wheel of the war hysteria of that time...