Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canwell himself defined Communists in a public statement: "If a person says that in this country Negroes are discriminated against and that there is inequality of wealth there is every reason to believe that person is a Communist...
...even other legislators complained of the inability of the accused to defend themselves. J. Alfred Schweppe, former dean of the University law school and a past president of the Washington bar, complained that the Canwell Committee itself was "un-American." One of the professors accused of being a Communist, Herbert Phillips, was prevented from replying to the "are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" question with anything but a yes or no answer when his replies were cut off by the repeated banging of the Canwell gavel. Canwell himself admitted that the gavel...
...members of his committee were defeated. But on their way out they made several recommendations. They asked that the committee be continued with enlarged powers; that it green the textbooks used in the schools in the State of Washington: and that a person affiliated with three or more "Communist front organizations" be labelled a Communist without recourse to slander or libel action. "Affiliation with recognized Communist front organizations should place the burden of proof as to loyalty on the individual so affiliated," the committee stated...
...arranged for me to put in an application for membership. I don't remember whether I signed it or not. After six years it's not too clear. I don't know whether this constituted my being a member of the Communist Party...
...Senate subcommittee, which has insisted during hearings that fellowship applications be screened to bar Communists, first heard of Edelman on Friday. Senator Wherry (R-Neb) brought him up as a possible Communist sympathizer who had received a fellowship without a security clearance...