Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Congress to call publicly for new legislation to replace the so-called publicly for new legislation to replace the so-called "Internal Security Act of 1950," passed overwhelmingly by Congress last week over the veto of the President. Celler has asked the Justice Department to draw up a communist-control bill of its own which could be presented to the legislators when they reconvene in late November...
Every ten years, on the basis of the national census, the Massachusetts State Legislature reapportions the state's Congressional districts. In 1940, the Republicans were in control of the Legislature and succeeded in "gerrymandering" the districts so that in 1948, Massachusetts returned eight Republicans and six Democratic Congressmen, though the Democrats received a majority of the votes cast in the state...
...titled the "Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950," requires in part that "Communist-action organizations" (the Communists Party) and "Communist-front organizations" register and report their financial receipts and expenditures and activities. In addition every member of the "Communist-action organization" must register...
...stating "I prefer the Morris Ernst solution of complete revelation at the sources--getting at those members who are the really disciplined members," Elliott pointed out that in his testimony on the original Mundt-Nixon Communist Control Bill before the House Committee on un-American Activities in 1948 he advocated that such legislation should be restricted to the core of the party which controls the membership--on the principle that "if you strike at the head of the snake, it can't strike back...
...Chafee attacked the all-inclusive Section 4, which reads: "It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to combine, conspire, or agree with any other person to perform any act which would substantially contribute to the establishment within the United States of a totalitarian dictatorship . . . under the domination or control of any foreign government...