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Eleven professors from the Law school are among more than 100 signatures of a petition to Congress opposing efforts by the House Un-American Activities Committee to cite a Chicago doctor, his assistant, and a social Chicagoans for contempt of Congress...
...petition, announced last Sunday Mark DeWolfe Howe '28,professor of Law, urges all members of the House to vote against the contempt citations of the three social Chicagoans subpoenaed in a recent investigation. HUAC, the letter said, had taken action contrary to the tenets of its characters, and had abused its legitimate powers "to no apparent legitimate legislative purpose...
...professors felt, Howe said, that the activities of HUAC were so objectionable that even the seven Ku Klux Klansmen cited for contempt by Congress last week should not have to submit to what he called "Congressional harassment." Robert M. Shelton, the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, Inc., and six of his associates had refused to answer questions on the activities of the Klan...
...takes a strict observance of principle," Howe said, "to oppose the investigation of bad guys by a committee of bad guys," but he noted that the professors felt that the grounds for asking for a reversal of the contempt citations for the Chicago social workers were equally applicable to the Klansmen...
Epic Feuds. For the customer who failed to appreciate his fare, Soule reserved an icy stare. To the diner who bickered over the check he delivered his ultimate gesture of contempt: puffing himself up to his full height (5 ft. 5 in.), he would rip up the check and say, "Good night. You have been guests of Le Pavilion...