Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mystery. How did it happen that the belligerent Dies Committee that ranted, raved, hurled such wild charges, spread so much alarm, could produce such a measured document? New Dealers last week had a ready answer: It was because the New Dealers on the Dies Committee
Young & old, baggy & neat, bright & dull, the men and women of Session III of the 76th Congress came together last week faced with election year and these issues: 1) renewal of the reciprocal trade agreements (see above); 2) the Budget and taxes; 3) National Defense; 4) proposals to curb NLRB; 5) relief appropriations; 6) amendments to the Wage-Hour...
Twenty years ago last week Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer smashed into the U. S. radical movement. On Jan. 2, 1920, Department of Justice agents con verged on radical hangouts and hideouts, rounded up 3,000 suspects the first day, blackened the administration of Woodrow Wilson as charges of injustice, of viola tions of civil liberties, of sluggings, thirddegrees, left a heritage of suspicion of U. S. laws and U. S. courts. The radical movement recovered, but not the political fortunes of wavy-haired, square-jawed A. Mitchell Palmer...
...Last week the Dies Committee chose the anniversary of the Palmer raids to make public its report of its 18-month investigation of un-American activities. Boiled down out of some 7,000 pages of testimony (3,773,600 words) taken from 205 witnesses, it was a document that no radical could have expected from the Dies Committee. Loudly critics have cried that Martin Dies was leading a witch hunt, that he was emulating A. Mitchell Palmer, that he was a Fascist, that he relied on hearsay and innuendo and accused individuals of Communist activities without giving them a chance...
Mystery. How did it happen that the belligerent Dies Committee that ranted, raved, hurled such wild charges, spread so much alarm, could produce such a measured document? New Dealers last week had a ready answer: It was because the New Dealers on the Dies Committee took the report away from die-hard Martin Dies...