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...League, he accused his critics of "a ruthless, cynical attempt to put over a gigantic hoax and fraud on the American people" to distract attention from the real issues of the day. Said Truman: "Political gangsters are attempting to pervert the [loyalty] program into an instrument of intimidation and blackmail, to coerce or destroy any who dare to oppose them . . . They have not hesitated to lie, under cover of congressional immunity, of course . . . They're worse than Communists, and I think they're partners with them...
Cadet and regular officers of the College's Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps yesterday vehemently denied charges of "blackmail" and unfair pressure methods in attempting to force "100 percent, not 99" subscription to the May 16 unit dance...
...enrolled in the Air Force ROTC unit here at Harvard have been disgusted and bewildered by the recent methods employed in getting "one hundred percent, not ninety-nine," turnout at the annual dance on May 16. The cadets and officers running the dance have used methods which amount to blackmail. In a recent air science class a dance committee representative spoke for about ten minutes to the class and implied that he was going to give the student cadets the "inside story." Simply, the story was that if a student does not put down a dollar deposit, he will...
...reverse: they cooked their family suppers early, then sat down for four uninterrupted hours of watching TV moppet shows. In Washington last week, the FCC published the results. The outraged mothers saw: 13 murders and assorted killings, 14 sluggings, six kidnapings, five holdups, three explosions, three instances of blackmail and extortion, three thefts, two armed robberies, two cases of arson, one lynching, one torture scene and one miscarriage. One mother clocked 104 gunshots during a half-hour serial; another found sudden death "shudderingly described" 14 times in 20 minutes...
...much ashamed for such a gangsterlike extortion by my former country, and now these two letters make me act. I am sure the only proper thing for anybody who is a Hungarian, or ever has been one, is to find the money to cover the amount of this brazen blackmail, and to refund it to the U.S. Government. There is plenty of money in Hungarian and ex-Hungarian hands in New York, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, and I fervently hope that this letter will be read by a few public-minded people, who will take up the cause. As for myself...