Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fell to a Negro housewife. Last week in a federal courtroom, in a small firm voice, she uttered the sentence which cut off the head of the Communist Party...
...Foley Square, but the room in the skyscraper courthouse was cast in majestic gloom. The babbling of the spectators in the pewlike benches had stopped. Wary-eyed deputy marshals, their numbers reinforced, had ranged themselves around the crowded room, against its marble walls. Eleven bosses of the Communist Party, on trial for conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government, now at the hour of reckoning, sat inside the rail behind their five lawyers. U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey, their unsmiling antagonist, rested his grey head on his hand...
...NROTC certificate uses one page of small type to relist those organizations originally designated by the Attorney General in the fall of 1947 as totalitarian, fascist, communist, advocating denial of constitutional rights, or seeking to alter the form of government by unconstitutional means. The facing page asks the individual to certify, among other things, whether he has been associated with these organizations...
...mainly due to the fact that Loyalty hearings are generally closed ones. In at least two publicized cases, however, including last year's notorious Remington trial, unconfirmed charged of association, similar to those obtainable from these statements, were used to fire government personnel although they swore they were anti-communist. The adequacy of the loyalty boards in applying this information is still pretty doubtful...
Schirmer, founder of the John Reed Club and a Communist himself, labeled the recent Communist trial as fascist inspired...