Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Issue. Across the Hill, in a Senate committee room, Mississippi's rabble-rousing Senator James O. Eastland faced C. B. Baldwin, secretary of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party. "Beanie" Baldwin was there to protest an anti-Communist bill. Baldwin, who off the stand said he was no Communist, refused on the stand to answer whether he was one or not. Angry at Eastland's insistence, Baldwin shouted: "You've been fighting against Negro rights ever since you became a Senator...
...first set of disclosures fell like a bomb on Hollywood. Actor Fredric March was accused of being a Communist; so were Singer Paul Robeson, Writers Dorothy Parker, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ruth McKenney, Albert Maltz, Alvah Bessie, Dalton Trumbo, Millen Brand and Michael Blankfort...
Other public figures were branded as Communist sympathizers. Among them were March's wife, Florence Eldridge, Boston University President Daniel L. Marsh, Radio Writer Norman Corwin and Cinema Stars Edward G. Robinson, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Muni, John Garfield and Melvyn Douglas, husband of California's Democratic Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas. Outraged and vehement denials and sardonic evasions flew from coast to coast...
Chapter 12 on "The Catholic Plan for America" is an interesting exergesis from various sources in Church literature, and reads very much like a reactionary Communist Manifesto. It is a program which has never been set forth by the American Catholic Church, and many Catholic clerics, according to Mr. Blanshard's own sources, agree neither with the temper of the thought, or the dogmatic authentication of the sources from which it is derived. Some clerics do agree, and the cases of Quebee and Spain certainly provide strong arguments for the possibility of compromise between Catholicism and fascism. But the blanket...
Among the "no" answers submitted, several objected to Communists on the grounds that they were incapable of impartiality. Another stated flatly that "membership in the Communist party and academic freedom are absolutely incompatible...