Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warned it might, promptly raised a dust storm of protest. Pioneer s president, General Robert J. Smith announced that his line would have to fire its 450 employees, shut up shop within a week, and wires from aroused constituents poured in upon Texas Congressmen. In reply, CAB calmly indicated that here were several anxious airlines just waiting to take over Pioneer's routes
...Jenners--for further encroachments of academic freedom. The hostility and antagonism aroused by "I refuse to answer because it might incriminate me" leads to more persecution, not to more respect for the teaching profession. Refusal to testify creates suspicion and distrust, both in the minds of the investigating Congressmen and in the minds of the general public. Regardless of how justified these investigations may be, the teacher who irritates the Velde committee by his silence at the same time encourages them to make more accusations and to conduct further investigations. Let our teachers appear not afraid to suffer the consequences...
...Silver City, N. Mex. this month for filming the semi-documentary Salt of the Earth) filed suit for a whopping $51,750,000 damages from 17 film companies, two producer associations, 20 top-ranking cinema executives (L. B. Mayer, Howard Hughes, Dore Schary, Sam Goldwyn, et al.), nine Congressmen (including the committee's current Chairman Harold Velde), and two committee investigators. The complaint: that their being named on studio blacklists (for such things as refusal to answer the committee's questions about their political beliefs and affiliations) has made them jobless pariahs in filmland. The outcast 22 demand...
...expose and humiliate nonconformists (a term explicitly including New Dealers), to compel confession, to create informers, to deprive the stiff-necked of their jobs, to terrorize the un subpoenaed members of the educational community, and to use the committee bearings as a sounding beard for the speeches of the Congressmen. These conclusions are supported by the frequent committee assertion that it possesses the information it seeks; by the committee practice of holding first an executive session and then a public hear in gin which the witness must state his address so that he can be subjected to community pressure...
...trouble began with a slip by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Last month, talking over a rough draft of the resolution with Democratic and Republican Congressmen, Dulles promised to check with them again on the final wording. He never did. As sent to Congress by the President, the resolution made no mention of Yalta or Potsdam, though it strongly rejected Russian perversions of World War II agreements that had led to enslavement of other nations. Democrats were pleased. But Republicans were miffed. They argued, in effect, that the Democrats were being allowed to get away with murder. Ever since...