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...Hang Me! Hang Me!" Throughout the trial, Alfred Noack tried his best to promote the same argument in his daughter's defense. "She's absolutely insane," he told newsmen. "She doesn't want to go on living." He brought an affidavit to the same effect from Yvette's mother in Brooklyn. "She was always high-strung when she was a girl," wrote Mrs. Noack. "She had a lot of crying spells. She had tantrums. She acted like a nut." At 15, the girl had run away from home, had lived with a middle-aged merchant...
Agent John T. O'Shaughnessy said in an affidavit that he had monitored both Judy's and Gubichev's phones in New York in one three-month period, swore later on the stand that he had never listened in on Gubichev's phone in that period. Agent James J. Lynch disclosed that he had spent six months-five days a week,' eight hours a day-glued to Gubichev's phone and had heard only five conversations, some involving Gubichev's wife. Did she speak English or Russian? asked Abraham Pomerantz, Gubichev...
...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...