Word: browders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same tone as the "Bender Rule." Only once in recent years has the College barred a speaker of unpopular views from University buildings. And the storm the incident provoked yielded a well-learned lesson for the College. The man about whom the controversy centered was the American Communist, Earl Browder...
Early in November of 1939, Jerome D. Greene, Secretary of the Corporation, touched off the issue by refusing permission to the now defunct John Reed Society to sponsor a lecture by Earl Browder in New Lecture Hall...
...Admiration." Early in the first act, a weary and worn figure stepped before the camera. Earl Russell Browder, the deposed chief of U.S. Communists, was to be asked about three of his books (number of copies unknown) found in the U.S. overseas libraries. To show the kind of material in the books, the subcommittee read a Browder paragraph into the record: "There is no way out except by seizing from the capitalists the industries, the banks, and all of the economic institutions and transforming them into the common property of all under the direction of the revolutionary government...
Although there was no secret about his Communist background, Earl Browder would answer no "substantive" question. His reason: "The chairman of this committee has publicly declared that he is out to get me . . ." Now, now, clucked McCarthy, hadn't his testimony kept Browder out of jail in 1951 ? Yes, said Browder, but McCarthy did that only because it served his own interests. Chairman Joe, who in 1951 testified that Browder was not in contempt of the anti-McCarthy Tydings committee, replied that he had done it to serve justice. Said he evenly: "May I say that I have...
...Mandel answered only when he wanted to. Like Browder, he often ducked behind the Fifth Amendment, refused to answer on the ground that his words might incriminate...