Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House cited 56 persons for contempt of Congress. All of them had refused to answer questions put to them by the Un-American Activities Committee in the past year. Thirty-nine were Hawaiians who defied questions asked by committeemen during an on-the-scene investigation of Communism in the territory; four were scientists who worked on atomic bomb projects; the others were various Reds and officials of the Red-run United Electrical Workers Union, including Julius Emspak and James Matles. Conviction may bring $1,000 fine, a year in jail...
...last April Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan went before 2,322 farmers in Minnesota to tout his controversial Brannan plan. The farmers, who work part-time for the Agriculture Department as local committeemen, were paid $8 a day plus 5? a mile traveling allowances plus incidental expenses to hear the big chief plug his own propaganda. Last week U.S. Comptroller General Lindsay Warren reported to Congress that Brannan's two-day rally had cost...
...that he would veto any bill which did not make up the revenue elsewhere. It would increase taxes on large corporation profits from the present 38% to 41% to bring in $433,000,000. With the prospect of another $500 million from plugging loopholes in other tax laws, the committeemen hoped to get their excise tax cuts past the President...
When an inflamed Communist mob beat up five U.S. soldiers on May 30 (TIME, June 12), General Douglas MacArthur decided that he had had enough of Red rabble-rousing. One morning last week the angry general ordered the Japanese government to bar the Communist Party's 24 Central Committeemen from all further political activity. The next day MacArthur added to the list 17 top staffers of Akahata (Red Flag), the party's newspaper...
Seven executive committeemen of Vargas' Labor Party flew south to his estancia to tell him that their convention would nominate him this week. Vargas' reply was characteristically enigmatic. He would accept, he said, if the two other major political parties, the Social Democrats and National Democratic Union, could not agree on a joint candidate. If he really had a candidate of his own in mind, most likely the man was able Oswaldo Aranha, his onetime Foreign Minister. But many Brazilians seemed to think that Getulio was maneuvering for his own return to power...