Word: christoffel
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...Ellen Gesmer '71-'72, Bernie Blustein '72-'73, Paul R.Harrison '72, Michael D.Cohen '70, Michael Ansara '68, J. Kenyon Chapman '69, Robert Kessler '71, Rebecca Klatek, Jane Stein '71, Nathan L. Goldshlag '71, Mark R. Dyer '70-'72, Joshua Freeman '70, Katha Pollitt '71, James H.Barton '58, Katherine K. Christoffel '69, Naomi A. Schapiro '71, Tom Christoffel (HLS '70), Ken Barnes '70, Judy Lieberman '69, Susan B. McLane '71, Judy L. Harrison, Peter S. wiss, Keith Nelson '65, Judith Larzelere, Kenneth Kronenberg, James klein '71, Paul Robins '70, Norman Daniels '71, Robert Krim '70, Samuel Baker '69, Jared Israel...
Lying in Company. The court's most astonishing decision of the day was the setting aside of the perjury conviction of deposed Labor Leader Harold R. Christoffel, who ran the costly Allis Chalmers strike in 1941. Christoffel had been given a two-to six-year prison sentence for falsely telling the House Education and Labor Committee that he was not a Communist. The Supreme Court, split 5 to 4, rescued Christoffel with a startling technicality: a quorum of the committee was not on hand when he told his lies; therefore, though he lied under oath, he had not lied...
...Justice Frank Murphy's majority opinion. The court was trying to change Congress' own rules, he said. For more than 150 years it has been standard congressional practice to presume a quorum until someone specifically raised the question and proved otherwise (as no one did in the Christoffel case). Murphy's decision, said Jackson, challenged the validity of thousands of congressional bills which have been passed without a record vote-hence without actual proof that a quorum was on hand...
Moscow policy was to sabotage U.S. war production. Dennis' man Christoffel was able to strike the plant and close it up tight for 76 days. Allis-Chalmers was then manufacturing machinery for war; the strike was one of the costliest work stoppages of the whole U.S. war-production effort...
...Eisler. These were Moscow's agents. From the ninth floor the Word which they brought from Moscow was passed along to the faithful, to the party hacks on the Daily Worker and the Yiddish-language Freiheit, to the cultivators of organized labor's vineyards, to men like Christoffel in Milwaukee...