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...second time, the House UnAmerican Activities Committee set out to determine the extent of Communist infiltration among Hollywood actors, actresses and screen writers. In its first expedition, though it lost its chairman along the way,* the committee had gotten the Hollywood Ten-producers, directors and screen writers-convicted and jailed for contempt in refusing to answer the question: "Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?" This time, having studied the old committee files and made further investigation on its own, the committee knew just what it was looking for: Are well-heeled Hollywood Communists...
...Judgment. During his membership, Parks said, the party engaged in nothing more subversive than coffee discussions. It had not tried to use him as a propaganda wedge; if it had, he added, it could never have gotten the party line past Hollywood's producers. Now, he realized, the party was "a power trying to take over the world"; but when he joined, he was guilty of "nothing wrong" except possibly "bad judgment...
...Some people have gotten the idea that we are just spenders, expansionists," Hansen said. "Keynesian economics stress control of inflation just as much as deflation...
...visited the Rosenbergs, Witness Greenglass went on, and sister Ethel had pointed out that the Rosenbergs were "no longer involved in Communist Party activities, that they didn't buy the Daily Worker any more, or attend meetings . . . And the reason for this is that Julius has finally gotten to the point where he is doing what he wanted to do all along, which was that he was giving information to the Soviet Union...
Hardly had he gotten out of his car, .22 rifle in hand, when he spotted a crow. The crow flew. Frank followed, patiently afoot, past fallow fields, thin thickets, ragged coverts and other unfortunate evidences of that dilapidated state into which nature habitually falls in winter. The crow stopped occasionally, but it covered about half a mile, as an erratic crow flies, before it roosted invitingly in a tree just beyond a ramshackle, wooden building. Frank crossed a mossy log over a creek and got within 100 feet of his quarry. Balancing there, he drew a bead and fired...