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Fast was one of the 18 members of the Executive Board of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee who were convicted for contempt of Congress because they would not show their books and records to the House un-American Activities Committee...
...June 27, 1947, a Federal court convicted Fast and his 17 associates of contempt and sentenced them each to three months in jail and a $500 fine. The case was immediately appealed, and the 18 were released on bail...
...large number of Columbia groups protested this decision. The P.C.A. called it a "complete break with the liberal traditions of American education," and noted that Professor Lyman Bradley, convicted with Fast for contempt, had been allowed to speak at Columbia in the summer...
Bradley and his associates were cited for contempt of Congress and, on June 27, 1947, were convicted in Federal Court and sentenced to three months in jail and a $500 fine...
Gone. FBI agents rushed to the Manhattan apartment in which Eisler had been living while appealing two jail sentences-one for contempt of Congress, another for falsifying an application for an exit permit. Eisler was gone. The Department of Justice was not only red-faced, but flabbergasted. The little man had been trying to get back to Germany ever since publicity had ruined his effectiveness in the U.S. in 1946. (The U.S. preferred to jail him rather than let him loose to raise trouble in Berlin...