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...five hundred people jammed the school auditorium to hear a lecture sponsored by the St. Gregory's Church Holy Name Society. This lecture received almost no advance publicity, but the speaker was to be ex-Communist, ex-managing editor of the Daily Worker, ex-McCarran Committee witness, Louis F. Budenz...
First surprise of the evening was the presence of Mayor John B. Hynes, his first appearance since the Boston election. Attorney General Francis Kelly followed Hynes onto the stage and was cheered as what the master of ceremonies called "a militant worker." Then came Budenz himself, a balding little man in a neat blue suit. Mayor Hynes, as he stepped up to the mike to say hello, suddenly whipped out an envelope and presented Budenz with the keys to the city--"in the name of the citizens of Boston." The entire audience stood up to cheer and Louis Budenz started...
...Communist Louis Budenz attacked the University last night in Dorchester as being a "red nest." Budenz, now a fierce anti-Communist, branded John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Astronomy, as "Reds," before a large crowd. After his speech, Mayor Hynes presented him with the key to Boston, and called him a "leader in the American way of life...
...3.Louis Budenz...
...September issue that "American Legion" unleashes its Sunday punch and names names, in a lead article by Eugene Lyons. Mr. Lyons titles the article "Our New Privileged Class"; he is piqued that there are people who have been accused of communist sympathies (by such sources as Louis Budenz and "Red Channels") but have not been struck by "the lightning of society's wrath." He shows a picture of the State Department's John Carter Vincent, and underneath runs the stinging indictment: "From China to Switzerland to North Africa." At the top of another page is a string of photos labeled...