Word: browderism
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...Communist Earl Browder has been in & out of enough courtrooms in his time to make him a pretty fair curbstone lawyer in his own right. When he went on trial in Washington a fortnight ago for contempt of Congress, he disdainfully brushed aside the aid of a court-appointed lawyer, argued his own defense and promptly put his finger on the soft point in the government's case...
...true, said Counselor Browder, that he had refused to answer 16 questions put to him by the Tydings sub-committee investigating Communist activity in the State Department. But they had not really been pertinent to the committee's line of inquiry. Furthermore, they had been minority questions, asked by Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper. A witness, he explained smoothly, is not obliged to answer minority questions unless ordered to do so by the committee chairman-and Chairman Tydings had issued no such orders...
...familiar figure around Washington courtrooms these days: Earl Browder 59, former head of the U.S. Communist Party. Out on bail awaiting a contempt of Congress trial, at which he has announced he will be his own defense attorney, Browder is currently busy boning up on courtroom dialectic...
...ruling might be applied to the grubby crew of witnesses who have defied congressional committees on the same grounds. Some 50 witnesses are currently embroiled with the law and facing jail terms for refusing to answer questions like those put to Mrs. Blau. Among them: Earl Browder, Frederick Vanderbilt Field. The famed Hollywood Ten, however, relied primarily on the First Amendment (freedom of speech) in their refusal to answer the question: Are you a Communist...
...year-old Washington spinster named Margaret Shipman read the news of his incarceration with fire in her eye. Last week Miss Shipman, a wiry, retired schoolteacher who once circulated petitions for Sacco & Vanzetti, decided to rush to the rescue. Although she had never met Browder until the day before, she marched into Washington district court, dug 15 new $100 bills out of her battered handbag and demanded his release. Was she a Communist? reporters wanted to know. "Now that's none of your business," she said "and don't you make up anything." The authorities counted...