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...Died. Brazilla Carroll Reece, 71, veteran conservative Republican Representative from the Tennessee hill country, whose chairmanship of the G.O.P. National Committee in 1946 helped win the party its first control of Congress in 16 years; of lung cancer; in Bethesda...
...Filho, Britain's Richard Grossman, Illinois' Frank Knox, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Blair Moody, Washington state's Warren Magnuson, South Dakota's Francis Case, Oklahoma's Mike Monroney, Idaho's Henry Dworshak, Louisiana's Edward Hebert, and Tennessee's Brazilla Carroll Reece...
...opening his investigation of tax-exempt foundations last year, Tennessee's Republican Congressman Brazilla Carroll Reece declared: "Here lies the story of how Communism and socialism are financed in the U.S. . . . There is evidence to show there is a diabolical conspiracy back of all this." Last week Recce's committee published the results of its work, along with an angry dissent by the committee's two Democrats, Ohio's Wayne Hays and Idaho's Gracie Pfost. The committee's conclusions, said the Democrats, "was, like the theme of doom in a tragic opera, revealed...
...them would be collected in taxes. But Reece does not want to abolish tax exemption for foundations. Apparently, he wants sharper legal distinctions between "good" research, which would be tax exempt, and "bad" research, which would not be. Who is the judge between good and bad research? Obviously, Brazilla Carroll Reece thinks he is qualified for an empirical foray into government thought control...
...House Special Committee's inquiry into tax-free foundations. Right from the start, through quotations out of context and broad innuendo, the committee's research staff tried to prove that the foundations have been vaguely unAmerican. Then, just as the foundations began their own defense, Chairman Brazilla Carroll Reece of Tennessee joined his fellow Republicans in abruptly voting to end public hearings; the foundations were invited to reply in written statements...