Word: browder
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...ruling might be applied to the grubby crew of witnesses who have defied congressional committees on the same grounds. Some 50 witnesses are currently embroiled with the law and facing jail terms for refusing to answer questions like those put to Mrs. Blau. Among them: Earl Browder, Frederick Vanderbilt Field. The famed Hollywood Ten, however, relied primarily on the First Amendment (freedom of speech) in their refusal to answer the question: Are you a Communist...
...Earl Browder had gone to jail acting as though he were delighted at the chance to be a martyr. He didn't have $1,500 to put up as bail on a contempt of Congress charge, and, he said contentedly, he didn't know where to find...
...year-old Washington spinster named Margaret Shipman read the news of his incarceration with fire in her eye. Last week Miss Shipman, a wiry, retired schoolteacher who once circulated petitions for Sacco & Vanzetti, decided to rush to the rescue. Although she had never met Browder until the day before, she marched into Washington district court, dug 15 new $100 bills out of her battered handbag and demanded his release. Was she a Communist? reporters wanted to know. "Now that's none of your business," she said "and don't you make up anything." The authorities counted...
Ever since the Communists kicked him out of the party as a deviationist, Earl Browder has worn the wistful air of a man denied even the chance to do penance for his sins. During the trial of eleven top U.S. Communists last year, he cried: "I'm the one who should be on trial. I was the original conspirator." But nobody in the U.S. paid any attention to him. The Russians-who had left him dangling on their payroll as a publisher's representative-roused only long enough to yawn and take his job away from...
...arrest on a charge of contempt of Congress, he paid his own way to the capital to surrender to authorities. He refused to post $1,500 bail-he was, he said, too broke to do so. Couldn't his friends raise the money? Fifty-nine-year-old Earl Browder smiled, puffed contentedly at his pipe, and said he had no intention of asking anyone for help...