Word: clark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Truman had directed, Attorney General Tom Clark last week issued his list of "totalitarian, fascist, Communist or subversive" organizations. It is to be used as a guide for the President's Loyalty Review Board in judging the loyalty of federal employees...
...Clark's black list of 90 organizations, compiled from the files of the FBI and other Government bureaus, contained no surprises to newsmen and others who cover the Communist front. Under the Communist Party, it listed seven "affiliate" committees, among them the Labor Research Association Inc. and the Committee to Aid the Fighting South. It listed several disbanded outfits, but it did not include several large organizations whose leaders' pursuit of the Communist line has made them suspect in Congress and elsewhere.* Now labeled by the Government as "Communist or subversive" were these busy and noisy organizations...
...Date as a Model T." Also listed were the American Youth for Democracy (once the Young Communist League) and eleven schools which Tom Clark's sleuths decided were Communist Party incubators. From William Z. Foster, boss Communist in the U.S., came the expected cry: "A purge list . . . takes the United States a long way toward fascism and police-state totalitarianism...
...Guilt by Association." Tom Clark prefaced his cautious listing with a warning: "It is entirely possible that many persons belonging to such organizations may be loyal to the United States. Guilt by association has never been one of the principles of American jurisprudence." Editorialized the New York Times: "Guilt by association is certainly implied. . . . The Government will be on safer ground, well within the principles of the Bill of Rights, if it gives every organization . . . a public day in court...
Full-scale grill business from a trailer operating around the Yard and at football games, with hamburgs, hot dogs, and all such trimmings, will greet Kitfield's return in '48, unless a $60,000 construction company in Phoenix, Arizona, pans out this year. If it does, Clark will join him in Phoenix to open a high-class night club, based primarily on the hopes that Arizona will legalize gambling...