Word: procommunist
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Hitting the Road. As he rolled through the Central Florida citrus belt last week, Congressman Smathers was doing everything possible to label Pepper a proCommunist, an apologist for Joe Stalin and a backer of that Yankee monstrosity, the FEPC. He ominously quoted Lenin as saying that the "best way to communize any country is to socialize its medical profession," and then implied that Pepper was a Leninist for supporting the Administration's national health-insurance bill. Smathers' supporters carried dislike of their opponent to the dining table, where the gag was to say "Please pass the black salt...
...present whose records he thought worth investigating. Of those still at work in State, the biggest name in the net was not exactly king-sized: Haldore Hanson, 37, who handles cultural jobs for the department, and technical work under the Point Four program. Hanson, said McCarthy, was guilty of "proCommunist activities," and hero-worshiped Chinese Communist Boss Mao from his days as a correspondent in Asia. The State Department replied that it was convinced of Hanson's patriotism. McCarthy still had a long way to go before proving that there are 57 Communists at work in the State Department...