Word: congress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Archibald MacLeish, Pulitzer Prize poet and former Librarian of Congress, is now being considered for the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, vacated three months ago by the death of Theodore Spencer...
Dennis served as a kind of handyman. He ran errands. He followed orders and aped his superiors. He coddled such Commie fronts as Negro Leader Max Yergen's National Negro Congress and cynically betrayed them. (Years later disillusioned Max Yergen declared: "I was finally repelled by the lack of principle, the moral rottenness of Communist Party practices...
Dennis ran into personal trouble. In 1947 the House Un-American Activities Committee demanded to know his right name. He refused to disclose it and spurned a subpoena. For that he was cited for contempt of Congress. The charge is still pending against...
...that the whole affair had been inspired by Communists, both the college and Strike Leader William Fortunato, president of the Student Council, denied it. But nobody denied that it was hard to keep the Commies from taking the strike over. For one thing, a representative of the Civil Rights Congress, labeled subversive by Attorney
...Jesse Wolcott (R-Mich.), who led the successful opposition last year, said "I don't think we will be able to stop it now." Two more of the Truman administration's prime legislative goals--a now labor bill and federal aid to education--are due for showdown tests in Congress this week...