Word: behest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behest of Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Dean Landis had been over all the ground in the Bridges case once before. For eleven weeks in San Francisco last summer he presided at a hearing to determine whether alien, unnaturalized Mr. Bridges: 1) was a Red; 2) as such, belonged to a party which preached violent overthrow of the U. S. Government; 3) could therefore be deported from California to Australia, where he was born...